The Intermittent Persistence of Blizzards
Humboldt County
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2019
Flood
Areal Flooding in Hancock County, 2019
Hancock county, Iowa
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2019
Flood
A 2018 Flash Flood in Winnebago County: A Twenty-First Century Sudden Strike
Winnebago county, Iowa
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2018
2018 Snow and Rain Challenge Agriculture
Osceola County
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2018
Flood
Heavy Rains and High Water
O'Brien county, Iowa
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2016
Flood
The Flood of June 2014
Rock Rapids, Lyon county, Iowa
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2014
Drought
The Droughts of Buena Vista County
Storm Lake, Buena Vista county, Iowa
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2013
Tornado
The Tornado Outbreak: 2011
Pocahontas County
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2011
Flood
The Missouri River Flood of 2011
The Missouri River, Woodbury County, Iowa
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2011
Sailing on Hot Summer Days
Spirit Lake, Dickinson County, Iowa
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1998
Flood
The 1993 Flood in Kossuth County
Kossuth county, Iowa
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1993
Tornado
The Tornado that Hit the Coal-fired Power Plant, Woodbury County
Woodbury county, Iowa
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1986
Blizzard
Drought
Flood
Heat
Insects
Tornado
Tornado
The Tornado of 1968
Okoboji, Dickinson County, Iowa
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1968
Sioux City Women Propose Bridging the Gap between Science and the Layman
Sioux City, Woodbury county, Iowa
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1963
Flood
Flood
Cause or Coincidence? Inundation and Disease, 1952
Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa
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1952
Extreme Weather in Interpretive Ballet
Lemars Municipal Park, Plymouth County, Iowa
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1946
Tornado
Blizzard
Weathering the Winter of 1936 in Calhoun County
Calhoun county, Iowa
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1936
Tornado
The Tornado of 1936
West Okoboji, Dickinson County, Iowa
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1936
Blizzard
Human Migration Meets Extreme Weather: Winter 1935-36
Hamilton county, Iowa
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1935
Drought
Blizzard
Tornado
The Volatile 1930s in Emmet County
Emmet county, Iowa
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1930
Tornado
Early Tornadoes and the Radio Station that Saved Lives
Clay County
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1914
Insects
Mosquitoes and the Preservation of Lakes and Wetlands
Rush Lake
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1910
Flood
Flood
Tornado
Turn-of-the-Century Sudden Strikes: Thunder-stones, Lightning, and a Tornado—1890, 1907, 1915
Winnebago county, Iowa
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1890
Drought
Blizzard
Blizzards in Lyon County
Lyon County, Iowa
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1888
Blizzard
Blizzards, Immigrants, and Democracy
Clay County
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1884
Tornado
Flood
Clay County Flood of 1881
Spencer, Clay County, Iowa
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1881
Wetlands and a Memory of Ditch Digging, 1880-1910
Hancock county, Iowa
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1880
Insects
Burns and Bugs in Sac County
Sac City, Sac county, Iowa
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1877
Insects
Prairie Chicken Dinner, Sac County
Sac county, Iowa
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1876
The Blizzards of Buena Vista County
Storm Lake, Buena Vista county, Iowa
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1875
Insects
Tornado
The Joys and Sorrows of a Sioux County Summer
Sioux County, Iowa
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1874
Insects
Grasshoppers and the Weather
Rock Rapids, Lyon county, Iowa
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1873
Blizzard
Blizzards on the Prairie of Osceola County
Osceola County
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1871
Insects
Grasshoppers In the 1870s: Blessings in Disguise
Kossuth county, Iowa
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1870
Blizzard
Perils for Immigrants and the Emmet County Winter of 1870
Emmet county, Iowa
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1870
Blizzard
The Emotional Toll of Extreme Weather and Hard Times
Havelock, Pocahontas county
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1870
Heat
Weather Diaries and Heat Data
Cherokee county
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1867
Flood
The Wet Year of 1858 and Union Slough mini-akapan-kaduza
Kossuth county, Iowa
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1858
The Weather and Migration After the Killings at Spirit Lake
Fort Dodge, Iowa
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1857
Blizzard
The Winter and the Tragedy of 1857
Spirit Lake, Dickinson County, Iowa
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1857
Blizzard
A Strict Definition of “Blizzard”: Beginning with the Winter of 1856-57
Kossuth county, Iowa
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1856
In the Bleak Midwinter
O'brien county, Iowa
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1856
Heat
A Hot Day in July and a Man Running from Slavery
Kossuth county, Iowa
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1855
Flood
The Grove that Never Was
Eagle Grove, Wright County
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1855
Blizzard
Animal Migrations, Human Intervention, and Extreme Weather: Newcastle Winter 1852-53
Hamilton county, Iowa
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1852
Flood
Early Floods in Lyon County
Lyon county, Iowa
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1851
Blizzard
A Familiar Winter Tragedy and a Unique Consequence
Bloody Run Creek, Humboldt County
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1848
Drought
Flood
Heat
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