EFU Tornado — Worth, Iowa

2024-08-05 · near Meltonville, Worth, Iowa

Event narrative

A brief tornado observed by spotters with track found in high resolution satellite imagery. This tornado had a looping track with the actual path length of nearly 1.6 miles instead of the 0.84 straight line distance provided by Storm Data. The tornado remained in rural cropland with no impacts to damage indicators, hence the EFU rating.

Wider weather episode

A severe thunderstorm moved across Worth County on the evening of August 5th producing 3 tornadoes. The tornadoes remained in rural cropland and were all rated as EFUs.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1191471. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.