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EF1 tornado in Muscatine County, Iowa

Tornado June 24, 2013 · Muscatine County, Iowa

EF1
Rating
6.5 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
1
Death
$500K
Damage as recorded
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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 EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

There was a narrow damage track with trees snapped and uprooted. The most intense damage occurred in the business district along Highway 61. There was damage to a church, car dealership, hotel, and several other business. The damage continued down New Era road where several farmsteads sustained damage. The fatality occurred at the car dealership. There were 5 semi trailers overturned along Highway 61.

The wider storm

A disturbance moving northeastward from northern Missouri into eastern Iowa led to the development of a severe squall line with bowing segments that produced widespread wind damage across eastern Iowa north of a line from Jefferson to Louisa County. An EF-1 tornado touched down in the city of Muscatine with damage in the business district and one fatality.

Began near Muscatine (41.4456, -91.0841).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 462311. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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