Tornado in Worth County, Iowa

Tornado August 5, 2024 · Worth County, Iowa

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Not rated

1.0 mi

Whole path

30 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Worth County → Worth County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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.

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 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.

The wider storm

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.

Began near Meltonville (43.4289, -93.0595).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Worth County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1191471. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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