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EF0 tornado in Scott County, Iowa

Tornado July 17, 2016 · Scott County, Iowa

EF0

Rating

1.9 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. 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

A NWS storm survey team reported a brief EF-0 tornado did damage to trees and downed corn stalks.

The wider storm

A nearly stationary frontal boundary spawned a line of thunderstorms that produced numerous reports of damaging winds and isolated tornadoes.

Began near Parkview (41.6740, -90.5490).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Benton County EF2 Benton County EF1 Jackson County EF1 Scott County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 652810. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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