EF0 tornado in Page County, Iowa

A couple of storm chasers captured on video a small brief tornado just to the west of Yorktown and north of Highway 2. The tornado appeared to be in open county with no damage reported.

A powerful upper level low pressure system moved quickly across the central Plains during the day on November 11th. As low pressure moved from Kansas into eastern Nebraska during the day, warm and moist air was pushed northward into the region. This unseasonably warm and moist air led to increasing instability during the afternoon over western Iowa and southeast Nebraska. This combined with the strong wind field associated with the low produced an atmosphere ripe for severe weather. Thunderstorms developed along the cold front in eastern Nebraska by early afternoon, and then increased in coverage and intensity as they tracked east into western Iowa during the early afternoon. Large hail and isolated tornadoes were produced by these thunderstorms.