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EF0 tornado in Lee County, Iowa

Tornado June 3, 2025 · Lee County, Iowa

EF0
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 EF0 tornado with maximum winds of 85 mph touched down southwest of Ft Madison Iowa. This derailed a train. It also damaged an irrigator, a garage, and trees.

The wider storm

In the late afternoon of June 3rd, a line of thunderstorms developed in northeast Missouri, and spread into far southeast Iowa and Illinois. These storms rapidly became severe. The thunderstorms quickly moved northeast across southeast Iowa, west central, and northwest Illinois between 530 PM and 8 PM CDT. This line of storms produced 8 tornadoes, along with isolated pockets of higher end wind damage from estimated winds of 80 to 100 mph. A cluster of several tornadoes moved into the the southern portions of the Quad Cities IA/IL metro area, producing EF1 damage into Moline Illinois.

Began near Viele (40.5800, -91.4400).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1252508. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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