Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, January 24, 1967

Name: Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, January 24, 1967
Start: 1967-01-24T10:00
End: 1967-01-24T17:15
Location: Iowa

January 24, 1967 · 14 events in 9 counties and zones

13 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: 11
Property damage: $1.6 million
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 14

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

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

Hail, Emmet

When: January 24, 10:00 AM CST
Where: Emmet County
Measured: 2 in hail
Coordinates: 43.380, -94.580

Tornado, Davis

When: January 24, 3:00 PM CST
Where: Davis County
Rating: F4
Path length: 6.8 mi
Path width: 150 yd
Property damage: $25,000
Coordinates: 40.580, -92.270

Tornado, Van Buren

When: January 24, 3:15 PM CST
Where: Van Buren County
Rating: F3
Path length: 25 mi
Path width: 400 yd
Property damage: $250,000
Coordinates: 40.870, -92.080

Tornado, Washington

When: January 24, 3:45 PM CST
Where: Washington County
Rating: F1
Path length: 1 mi
Path width: 200 yd
Property damage: $3,000
Coordinates: 41.300, -91.700

Tornado, Henry

When: January 24, 3:50 PM CST
Where: Henry County
Rating: F0
Path width: 150 yd
Property damage: $250,000
Coordinates: 41.150, -91.430

Tornado, Louisa

When: January 24, 4:00 PM CST
Where: Louisa County
Rating: F2
Path length: 3 mi
Path width: 250 yd
Property damage: $30
Coordinates: 41.300, -91.370

Tornado, Lee

When: January 24, 4:15 PM CST
Where: Lee County
Rating: F3
Path length: 4.3 mi
Path width: 300 yd
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Injuries: 6 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $250,000
Coordinates: 40.670, -91.320

Tornado, Lee

When: January 24, 4:20 PM CST
Where: Lee County
Rating: F2
Path length: 3 mi
Path width: 200 yd
Injuries: 4 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $250,000
Coordinates: 40.700, -91.230

Tornado, Louisa

When: January 24, 4:20 PM CST
Where: Louisa County
Rating: F2
Path length: 2 mi
Path width: 150 yd
Injuries: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $25,000
Coordinates: 41.200, -91.280

Tornado, Clinton

When: January 24, 4:45 PM CST
Where: Clinton County
Rating: F2
Path length: 2 mi
Path width: 150 yd
Property damage: $25,000
Coordinates: 41.800, -90.830

Tornado, Scott

When: January 24, 4:50 PM CST
Where: Scott County
Rating: F2
Path length: 2 mi
Path width: 143 yd
Property damage: $25,000
Coordinates: 41.780, -90.770

Tornado, Scott

When: January 24, 5:11 PM CST
Where: Scott County
Rating: F2
Path length: 2 mi
Path width: 250 yd
Property damage: $250,000
Coordinates: 41.620, -90.580

Tornado, Clinton

When: January 24, 5:15 PM CST
Where: Clinton County
Rating: F2
Path length: 1 mi
Path width: 200 yd
Property damage: $25,000
Coordinates: 41.870, -90.370

Tornado, Clinton

When: January 24, 5:15 PM CST
Where: Clinton County
Rating: F2
Path width: 100 yd
Property damage: $250,000
Coordinates: 41.950, -90.330

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, Lee	1967-01-24				Direct

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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.

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

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Iowa in 1967 Every state in 1967 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Iowa, 1967

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: 10011997, 10011998, 10011999, 10012000, 10012001, 10012002, 10012003, 10012004, 10012005, 10012006, 10012007, 10012008, 10012009, 10012010.