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F1 tornado in Page County, Iowa

Tornado April 8, 1999 · Page County, Iowa

Rating

58.0 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

Injuries

$2.7M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Page County → Taylor County → Adams County → Cass County → Adair County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

This tornado dissipated around the same time a longer tracked tornado formed near the Adams and Taylor county lines in southwest Iowa. In Page county the damage was relatively minor, however, much stronger damage was reported farther to the northeast.

Began near Clarinda (40.7500, -95.0000).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5695943. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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