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EF0 tornado in Floyd County, Iowa

Tornado May 9, 2024 · Floyd County, Iowa

EF0

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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

Multiple sources reported a very short lived non-supercell tornado south of Charles City, IA. Video footage showed a brief touchdown in an open field. No damage was observed.

The wider storm

During the afternoon of May 9th, multiple sources reported a landspout tornado associated with a weak thunderstorm south of Charles City, IA. No damage was reported with this landspout tornado.

Began near Charles City (43.0222, -92.6716).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1167161. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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