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EF0 tornado in Davis County, Iowa

Tornado November 5, 2024 · Davis County, Iowa

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$120K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

A brief tornado occurred south of Floris from a developing weak storm. The tornado moved across a farmstead on the west side of Pecan Avenue producing high end EF0 damage to two metal buildings. The tornado lifted shortly afterwards.

The wider storm

A brief tornado occurred with a shower in Davis County during the late morning. Weak instability along a modest boundary was sufficient for a small tornado from a shower producing EF0 damage.

Began near Belknap (40.8030, -92.3482).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1216653. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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