The strongest of these was an EF3 southeast of Indianola doing considerable damage to the Operators Union training facility, fortunately no injuries occurred. After a very slow start to the 2019 tornado season in Iowa with no tornadoes through May 21st, the season kicked into high gear almost overnight. The final tornado of the month was a weak tornado in northwest Iowa near Terril. Thunderstorms began developing over northwest Iowa shortly after midnight on August, 2019. Please try another search.Multiple locations were found. Local authorities reported a half-dozen tornadoes … This included three tornadoes in the morning on the 20th associated with a line of thunderstorms. An additional four tornadoes were observed on the 15th with a landspout north of Whitten in Hardin county which destroyed an old barn. Please try another search.Multiple locations were found. Additional tree damage was noted eastward to 190th Ave before the damage become more inconclusive due to lack of road access. Debris from this damage was spread over 1/4 mile into surrounding fields.
The season started with overnight tornadoes on May 22nd including two in southwest Iowa. There were 75 tornadoes reported in the United States in August; however, 78 were confirmed. Multiple tornadoes ripped through eastern Iowa Monday afternoon, damaging several homes, barns and trees. Finally, on Novmeber 30th, two weak tornadoes occurred near Lake Panorama passing through rural agricultural land or wooded areas. Then on Memorial Day, six tornadoes occurred with two in northern Iowa and the other three in the far southeast. The tornado continued east/southeast across agricultural land producing scattered tree damage in shelter belts until crossing US Highway 65.
This eight day period in late May accounted for 25 tornadoes across the state including one death and two injuries and accounted for just over half of the normal tornadoes Iowa experiences in a year. In total, 54 tornadoes occurred in 2019 across Iowa with one fatality and two injuries. Roof damage to several homes and outbuildings occurred along with widespread tree damage, with several large trees snapped at the trunk or uprooted. The strongest tornado was an EF3 in Van Buren county where extensive damage was produced at a house near Cantril. While most of the tornadoes remained in open farmland, a few of them did produce damage in Hardin and Poweshiek county including one injury near Deep River. There was an uptick in activity during the month of August with six tornadoes reported. These tornadoes remained in rural areas producing little damage despite remaining on the ground for several minutes each. The stronger of the two was an EF2 tornado just southeast of Adair. Two days later on May 24th, a pair of tornadoes occurred in the Iowa City area producing minor damage but fortunately no injuries or deaths. While storms started out as discrete storms producing mainly small hail and locally heavy rainfall, they gradually merged and the threat transitioned to a wind and tornado event. The most significant occurred just east of US 65 as the tornado produced significant damage to the Iowa Operator Engineers Training Facility. The tornado tracked southeast impacting one residence along Quail Ridge Avenue. 2019 Iowa Tornado Summary After a very slow start to the 2019 tornado season in Iowa with no tornadoes through May 21st, the season kicked into high gear almost overnight. Please select one of the following:***ALL DATA ON THIS PAGE IS PRELIMINARY AND MAY CHANGE AT ANY TIME***This page will be updated as time and resources allow and may not contain information from recent eventsAbove is a map of the tornadoes that occurred across Iowa in 2019. List of confirmed tornadoes – Tuesday, October 1, 2019; EF# Location County / Parish State … By 4 to 7 am storms were pushing across central Iowa, producing areas of straight line wind damage with several embedded tornadoes along the front edge of the line. Some final modifications to this track may be made pending final review of drone footage.Sorry, the location you searched for was not found.
Mouse over each icon to view more information on that tornado, which will appear in the box to the right. Please select one of the following:The Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale classifies tornadoes into the following categories: The tornado tracked E/NE towards Tracy producing fairly widespread tree damage. The tornado continued eastward producing minor to moderate roof and siding damage to several farmsteads and outbuildings along and north of Roosevelt Street. This tornado produced extensive damage to a home killing a 74 year old woman and injuring her husband. Sorry, the location you searched for was not found. While storms started out as discrete storms producing mainly small hail and locally heavy rainfall, they gradually merged and the threat transitioned to a wind and tornado event. Severe storms brought high winds and at least three tornadoes to parts of Iowa … Overview Thunderstorms began developing over northwest Iowa shortly after midnight on August, 2019. The first tornadoes in June occurred on the 9th with three landspouts in eastern Iowa. The other tornado that night was an EF1 outside of Anita. The other three tornadoes occurred in Des Moines county including two EF2 tornadoes southwest of Oakville. The tornado continued southeast across Quail Ridge Avenue impacting agricultural fields before dissipating.
As storms continued to push south the tornado threat diminished, but storms continued to produce heavy rain and gusty winds across the line of storms.The tornado began about one half mile west of the intersection of County Rd G62 and 240th Ave where two wooden power poles were snapped. There were nine tornadoes during September, but these remained in rural locations producing only minor to no damage. Several metal building systems were nearly completely destroyed, including the complete separation of metal floor footing from concrete. Three tornadoes occurred in July and all were very short in length and remained in open cropland.