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On the afternoon of May 21, 2024, a violent tornado tracked across southwestern Iowa, devastating the city of Greenfield.The tornado destroyed many structures and wind turbines across its path that stretched through Page, Taylor, Adams, and Adair counties, while also causing more than $31 million in property damage, killing five people and injuring 35 more.
It linked damage descriptions—like felled trees or destroyed houses—to a bracket of wind speeds that would have been necessary to cause the damage, assigning each a rating from F0 to F5. This approach to rating tornadoes and concluding their probable wind speeds was revolutionary and was replicated and adapted into the various scales used ...
After exiting Greenfield, this tornado moved east-northeastward, weakened, and dissipated over open terrain as the other tornado became the dominant circulation within the supercell. [ 82 ] The tornado was on the ground for 48 minutes, traveled 43.07 mi (69.31 km), and had a peak width of 1,600 yd (1.5 km).
National Weather Service teams are conducting surveys Wednesday after tornadoes hit Iowa. An initial survey showed at least EF3 damage in Greenfield.
At least four people were killed and 35 injured by an EF4 tornado that plowed through the center of Greenfield, Iowa, on Tuesday. Peak winds of 185 mph were estimated by the National Weather ...
The National Weather Service in Des Moines will send three survey crews across the state to search for tornado damage on Wednesday. One team will be focused on just the Greenfield area. One team ...
More than 202 homes were destroyed by a series of tornadoes that raked the state on Tuesday, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said Thursday at a news conference. Most were in and around Greenfield.
Search. Appearance. Donate; Create account; ... English: High-resolution data of the Greenfield, Iowa EF4 tornado caught by DOW6. Date: 21 May 2024: