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Tornado August 11, 2025 · Van Buren County, Iowa

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Not rated
2.2 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

Satellite data shows an EF-U tornado path through crops at this location. This tornado did not hit any structures along its 2.2 mile long path.

The wider storm

Hot weather resulted in daily episodes of clusters of storms with damaging winds, isolated hail, and some areas of flash flooding from August 12 through August 18th. The most widespread activity occurred August 15th, and 18th, when several lines of storms moved through the area. Late on August 11th, a long lived supercell storm, resulted in a tornado in Van Buren County. This tornado produced visible damage on satellite through crops, but produced no other reported damage to base a exact rating.

Began near Morris Park (40.8154, -91.7747).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1277281. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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