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EF0 tornado in Mitchell County, Iowa

Tornado April 12, 2022 · Mitchell County, Iowa

EF0

Rating

8.1 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$75K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Floyd County → Mitchell County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

This EF0 tornado developed in Floyd County and moved into Mitchell County southwest of Osage. The tornado moved to the northeast across rural parts of southern Mitchell County before dissipating south of Osage. Damage was primarily limited to trees.

The wider storm

Severe storms moved across northeast Iowa during the evening of April 12th. These storms produced five tornadoes and damaging wind gusts as high as 72 mph in Nora Springs (Floyd County). EF1 tornadoes occurred near Brownville (Mitchell County) and south of Riceville in both Mitchell and Howard Counties with both tornadoes damaging farm buildings and trees. EF0 tornadoes touched down in northern Floyd County into southern Mitchell County west of Orchard, near Saratoga (Howard County), and close to Ridgeway (Winneshiek County) with damage limited to trees and a few farm buildings. The Governor of Iowa issued a disaster proclamation for Howard, Mitchell, and Winneshiek Counties.

Began near Meroa (43.2127, -92.8754).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

3 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Howard County EF1 Mitchell County EF0 Winneshiek County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1019329. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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