EF0 tornado in Muscatine County, Iowa

Tornado April 2, 2026 · Muscatine County, Iowa

EF0

Rating

2.5 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

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

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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

An EF0 tornado lofted a corn crib, snapped trees, bent an auger, and partially destroyed a roof on a farm outbuilding. This tornado began in Johnson County, Iowa.

The wider storm

During the afternoon and evening of April 2nd, 2026, and early spring supercell thunderstorm event spread across eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois. This brought several swaths of damaging wind, large hail, and several tornadoes to both Iowa and Illinois.

Began near West Liberty (41.5900, -91.3665).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Jackson County EF1 Washington County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1325149. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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