EF1 Tornado — Buena Vista, Iowa

2013-10-04 · near Hanover, Buena Vista, Iowa

Event narrative

A tornado destroyed a garage and damaged several other buildings and farm equipment on a farm, and damaged trees and power lines. The tornado also damaged a metal building system. The tornado also severely damaged the roof and air conditioning units at a school near Alta, and destroyed bleachers at the school.

Wider weather episode

Thunderstorms produced eleven tornadoes, several of them causing damage, which tracked wholly or partly in northwest Iowa during the afternoon and early evening of October 4th. There were also two reports of large hail and one report of non tornadic damaging thunderstorm winds.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 476160. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.