The long advertised severe weather forecast for Friday is coming into view with the Storm Prediction Center issuing an expansive 'Day 3' enhanced risk that just clips southeastern Iowa. While the enhanced risk threshold only dates back to 2014, this currently issued one is the 5th largest in size according to unofficial IEM archives. The featured chart presents the number of days since the last given day 3 outlook category touched any part of Iowa (for events prior to the current one). Note that SPC's highest category, a High Risk, is not possible for day 3 outlook. So the last day 3 enhanced risk for Iowa was 26 May of last year, so it has been a while!

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