A bit of severe weather visited Iowa on Monday evening, but stayed off to our south on Tuesday. The severe weather threat on Tuesday was focused over eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas with a number of Severe Thunderstorm (SVR) Warnings issued by the NWS. The NWS office in Norman, Oklahoma issued a few such warnings and added to their prodigious total for the year. In fact, their office's SVR warning total for 2025 is the largest yearly total on record for a NWS forecast office according to unofficial IEM archives. The featured chart presents the top ten NWS forecast office SVR warning total years along with the top years for each of the five offices covering Iowa. If you somehow like Severe Thunderstorm Warnings, central Oklahoma is certainly the place to live with the office having seven of the top ten warning total years. The Iowa office maximums are much smaller in comparison with even the largest total from Sioux Falls being less than half of this year's Norman total.

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