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Tornado May 24, 2024 · Scott County, Iowa

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Not rated
0.8 mi
Path length
10 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A video from the public showed a brief tornado over the Mississippi river between Lock and Dam 14 and the I-80 bridge. There was no damage and the tornado is rated EF-unknown. Time estimated by radar.

The wider storm

A long-lasting complex of severe thunderstorms, known as a derecho, tracked from central Nebraska through northwest Illinois during the late night hours May 23rd, to the morning of May 24th. This resulted in frequent wind damage reports and embedded tornadoes. There were 16 tornadoes confirmed in the NWS Quad Cities warning area. The four strongest tornadoes all had maximum winds near 110 mph (EF1), and those were the Delta, IA; Wellman to Frytown, IA; Bennett to Lowden, IA; and Coyne Center, IL tornadoes. This was the most tornadoes in a single event for the NWS Quad Cities warning area since the March 31, 2023 outbreak.

Began near Pleasant Vly (41.5756, -90.3944).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1177456. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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