EF0 tornado in Story County, Iowa
Tornado April 23, 2022 · Story County, Iowa
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Polk County → Boone County → Polk County → Boone County → Polk County → Story County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 60 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
The tornado entered Story county from Boone county and immediately passed near a farmstead. It destroyed a small empty feed bin and tossed it into a field. Otherwise, the tornado remained in open cropland before dissipating shortly thereafter.
The wider storm
Showers and thunderstorms developed along a cold front in the early morning hours, with quarter sized hail and a few stronger winds gusts reported in central Iowa around sunrise. This pushed east of the area by mid morning and temperatures warmed. This allowed for deep mixing and non-thunderstorm associated wind gusts of 50 to over 60 mph occurred across the area through the afternoon. In the evening a secondary front passed across the state, with daytime heating allowing for more robust convection to develop. The bowing, linear storm system primarily produced a swath of wind gusts and damage, however a few smaller hail reports were made.
Began near Kelley (41.9388, -93.6981).
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1033744. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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