where officials were hoping someone would recognize the couple among the artifacts they had from the 2008 tornado that swept through the town. City of Parkersburg, Iowa/Facebook Tomkins’ home ...

(Iowa typically averages about 19 tornadoes ... In 2008, when the state's last EF-5 tornado struck Parkersburg, resulting in nine of the year's 13 tornado fatalities. In 1979, when tornadoes ...

PARKERSBURG — After a killer tornado in 2008 and the murder of a beloved ... which has drawn the attention of the Variety Club of Iowa. Bruns said people in his town possess a quality, which ...