The multi-day severe weather outbreak that produced confirmed tornadoes in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota over the weekend pushed into the Central Plains and Rockies over the past 24 hours, with the Storm Prediction Center confirming five new tornado touchdowns in Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming.
The SPC’s latest survey lists confirmed tornadoes 2 miles east-southeast of Everly, Iowa; 3 miles southeast of Greenville, Iowa; 6 miles north-northeast of Otis, Colorado; 4 miles southeast of Torrington, Wyoming; and 3 miles northwest of Hubbell, Nebraska. When combined with Sunday’s confirmed touchdowns in Florida and South Dakota, the outbreak has now been confirmed across at least six states in less than 48 hours, one of the broader multi-state tornado footprints of the season so far.
The wind damage accompanying the outbreak has also escalated sharply. The SPC’s rolling 48-hour damage survey now counts 909 damaging wind reports nationwide, nearly double the 509 reports tallied a day earlier, even as large hail reports held steady at 101. The jump in wind reports signals that the most widespread impact of this outbreak has come not from the tornadoes themselves but from the broader line of severe thunderstorms that produced them, a pattern consistent with the fast-moving supercell clusters that have crossed the Plains this week.
The National Weather Service has issued follow-up statements in Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming as survey teams work to confirm damage paths and rate the tornadoes’ intensity. As of this reporting, the SPC’s counts remain preliminary and are expected to be updated as additional storm reports are reviewed.
The immediate tornado threat that produced Monday’s confirmed touchdowns has largely passed, but the same storm system’s wind and hail threat is not finished. Residents in the affected corridor, including those near Denver weather and Omaha weather, should continue to monitor local forecasts as survey crews assess damage and additional storm reports come in from Tuesday’s activity.
The SPC’s confirmed-tornado count has more than doubled the nation’s multi-day total since Sunday, and forecasters caution that the four-state cluster confirmed Monday may not be the outbreak’s final chapter. With storm reports still being logged across the Plains, officials say the tally of damaging wind and hail reports is likely to keep climbing before the system finally clears the region.