And yet another explosive round of severe weather visited the United States last night with numerous reports of large hail, extreme winds, and tornadoes. These reports were south and east of Iowa as we suffered through a cold easterly wind and snow over northern Iowa. The featured chart presents the number of county based severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings issued by the NWS during April. This year's total is already nearly double of last April and well above the previous maximum of 2009.

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