DES MOINES, Iowa [KCCI-TV] — The National Weather Service has determined that a third tornado formed in Iowa back on April 17th. The tornado, rated an EF1, touched down in southwestern Union County near the intersection of 270th Street and Beechwood Avenue around 10:21 pm.

The NWS survey shows it traveled more than four miles east-northeast, damaging multiple sheds and one home over the next seven minutes. The tornado lifted about eight miles straight south of Creston around 10:28 pm. The tornado followed two others in far southwest Iowa earlier in the evening, including one that measured over a mile wide in Fremont & Page counties.

So far, just four tornadoes have struck Iowa in 2025. More than 90 had formed in the state at this point last year.