On April 14, a tornado came down on Creston, IA so quickly that it even caught emergency management officials off-guard - it materialized so fast that none of the city’s tornado sirens were activated.

In early September 2011, Tropical Storm Lee stalled over central Pennsylvania only a week after Hurricane Irene swept the East Coast. The residual flooding cost residents and businesses thousands to millions of dollars in property damages. This included the hard hit Danville Area School District in Danville, PA.

Seven tornadoes touched down across the Tri-State area of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio on March 2, 2012, the largest of which were in Holton, IN, Crittenden and Piner, KY, and Moscow, OH. All of the tornadoes measured at EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.