The Storm Prediction Center confirmed six new tornado touchdowns over the past 48 hours, spreading the multi-day severe weather outbreak into Iowa, Michigan and Virginia after tornadoes were confirmed in Colorado, Minnesota and South Dakota a day earlier.
Confirmed tornadoes were recorded near Stacyville and Oto, Iowa; near Trenary, Michigan; near Wytheville, Virginia; and near North Sterling Reservoir, Colorado, according to the Storm Prediction Center. Six active weather alerts remained tied to the event across the four states as of this reporting.
The outbreak has now touched at least six states over two days — Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota and Virginia — as the storm system responsible for Monday’s tornadoes in the northern Plains pushed east and spawned new touchdowns in the Midwest and mid-Atlantic. Colorado’s North Sterling Reservoir area, hit by a confirmed tornado Monday, recorded another confirmed touchdown in the same vicinity, underscoring how the region has taken repeated hits from the slow-moving system.
Beyond the tornadoes, the Storm Prediction Center logged 31 large hail reports and 324 damaging wind reports over the same 48-hour period, reflecting a broader swath of severe thunderstorm activity that accompanied the tornadic storms. The damaging wind total marks a sharp jump from the 255 reports logged in the prior 48-hour window, pointing to an intensifying wind threat even as the tornado count held roughly steady.
The National Weather Service noted that Monday’s storm reports are confirmed, post-event findings rather than active warnings, meaning the immediate tornado threat in the hardest-hit areas has passed. Damage assessments are ongoing in the affected Iowa, Michigan, Virginia and Colorado communities, and residents in those areas are urged to stay alert for downed trees and power lines from the wind reports as cleanup begins.
Forecasters have not ruled out additional severe weather as the system continues its eastward track. Residents across the affected corridor should continue monitoring National Weather Service alerts, as the same atmospheric pattern that produced back-to-back tornado outbreaks in Colorado and the Midwest this week remains active. The Storm Prediction Center is expected to update its damage survey findings as local weather service offices complete on-the-ground assessments in the coming days.