The southern plains have seen a number of bouts with severe weather so far this year. The featured chart presents the number of severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings issued between 1-16 January each year since 1986 along with the total for each year. Active or inactive severe weather starts to the year do not appear to indicate what the yearly total will be. Iowa's severe weather season is still a few months away, but our weather will become severely cold this weekend.

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Good = 39
Bad = 6