EF1 tornado in Cherokee County, Iowa

A tornado snapped and damaged power poles and lines, destroyed or damaged several outbuildings on two farmsteads, flipped over a camper into a garage, damaging the garage, flipped over a large anchored empty tank, damaged the roof of a house and broke windows on the house, heavily damaged several buildings in a livestock confinement area, blew a grain bin off its foundation into a semi truck cab, flipped another semi trailer into a grain bin, and caused tree damage, including several trees blown down or snapped off.

Thunderstorms produced widespread severe weather in northwest Iowa during the evening of April 9th, beginning at the end of the afternoon. Most of the reports at the start of the event were large hail, but damaging winds and tornadoes then developed, with significant damage reported.