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EF0 tornado in Linn County, Iowa

Tornado April 27, 2014 · Linn County, Iowa

EF0
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

Several spotters reported a tornado between Mt. Vernon and Springville. Traffic lights were knocked out by the tornado. Radar signatures show that this tornado shares the same parent storm circulation that can be traced back to the Keokuk County tornado.

The wider storm

A powerful storm system lifted into the central Plains on the afternoon of April 27, 2014 and brought several rounds of showers and thunderstorms to eastern Iowa. Some of these thunderstorms were severe and produced damaging winds and an isolated hail report. There was one confirmed tornado during the event that moved across Keokuk, Iowa and Johnson Counties with two fatalities. In addition to the damaging winds rainfall totals ranged from a half an inch to around 1 inch in a little under an hour.

Began near Lisbon Mohn Arpt (41.9625, -91.3819).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Keokuk County 2 dead

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 504548. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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