Ultimate Creston 2012 tornado Storify

A tornado struck Creston in Iowa's Union County at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 14, 2012. The EF2 twister gouged across the northwest edge of town, damaging the local hospital and community college as well as people's homes. But no deaths resulted -- 11 months after a pair of tornadoes in nearby Lenox also spared all lives.

  1. One of the settings for my Monday in Creston with fellow Register journalist Rodney White was student David Prchal's ravaged dorm room on the Southwestern Community College campus:

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Kyle Munson

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