EF2 Tornado — Linn, Iowa

2025-07-11 · near Center Pt, Linn, Iowa

Event narrative

This tornado intensified rapidly after development, and there was a visual from a farmstead to the north of the tornado developing. A dozen large trees at the first homestead hit were downed, some thrown, and heavy outbuilding, garage, and home roof damage. Further there were other homesteads/farmsteads that had outbuilding damage, utility poles downed (in one case thrown), and many trees snapped.

Wider weather episode

On July 11th, a line of severe thunderstorms moved across eastern Iowa and produced damaging straight-line winds, tornadoes and heavy rain. Rainfall totals of 2 to 4 inches fell in a few hours across the Quad Cities, on top of heavy rain from the previous night and caused major flash flooding in Davenport. A Considerable Flash Flood warning was issued at 5:26 PM followed by a Flash Flood Emergency at 6:16 PM.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1281954. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.