Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, April 12, 1964

Name: Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, April 12, 1964
Start: 1964-04-12T16:45
End: 1964-04-12T17:30
Location: Iowa

April 12, 1964 · 5 events in 5 counties and zones

4 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
Other

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The toll

Deaths: 1
Injuries: 28
Property damage: $2.8 million
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 5

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

Event by event

4 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Page

When: April 12, 4:45 PM CST
Where: Page County
Rating: F4
Path length: 13.1 mi
Path width: 400 yd
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Injuries: 28 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $2.5 million
Coordinates: 40.670, -95.230

Tornado, Montgomery

When: April 12, 4:50 PM CST
Where: Montgomery County
Rating: F2
Path length: 2 mi
Path width: 150 yd
Property damage: $25,000
Coordinates: 40.900, -95.050

Tornado, Cass

When: April 12, 5:30 PM CST
Where: Cass County
Rating: F1
Path length: 0.2 mi
Path width: 200 yd
Property damage: $25,000
Coordinates: 41.250, -94.730

Tornado, Union

When: April 12, 5:30 PM CST
Where: Union County
Rating: F2
Path length: 9.4 mi
Path width: 33 yd
Property damage: $250,000
Coordinates: 40.920, -94.470

Hail, Taylor

When: April 12, 5:30 PM CST
Where: Taylor County
Measured: 1.5 in hail
Coordinates: 40.880, -94.500

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
Tornado, Page	1964-04-12				Direct

What these are

Tornado: A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Iowa in 1964 Every state in 1964 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Iowa, 1964

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10014406, 10014407, 10014408, 10014409, 10014410.