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In the 30 year period of 1981-2010 Iowa averaged about 1 tornado related death per year. However, it varies widely from year to year. Some years saw not deaths from tornadoes in that state, while in 2008 13 people died from tornadoes in Iowa, 9 of them from a single tornado.

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