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EF0 tornado in Boone County, Iowa

Tornado May 24, 2024 · Boone County, Iowa

EF0

Rating

10.7 mi

Path length

180 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 180 yards (0.10 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 QLCS tornado started a few miles north of Woodward and moved eastward quickly. Most of the damage along the entire path was to trees although one farmstead south of Luther had damage to one of the outbuildings. The tornado lifted to the south of Napier in eastern Boone County.

The wider storm

A strong QLCS moved across central Iowa during the early morning hours of May 24 producing widespread wind damage and five tornadoes.

Began near Madrid (41.8948, -93.9315).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Hamilton County EF0 Dallas County EF0 Polk County EF0 Warren County EF0 Polk County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1170126. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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