Hail, Fremont
- When
- May 5, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Fremont County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.700, -95.400
Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, May 5, 1971
4 hail, 3 tornado, 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
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 13
- Property damage
- $300,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
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 hail, 3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Ringgold
- When
- May 5, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Ringgold County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.820, -94.350
Tornado, Taylor
- When
- May 5, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Taylor County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Injuries
- 12 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.750, -94.630
Tornado, Taylor
- When
- May 5, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Taylor County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.780, -94.900
Hail, Ringgold
- When
- May 5, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ringgold County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.700, -94.180
Hail, Taylor
- When
- May 5, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Taylor County
- Measured
- 4 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.780, -94.500
Hail, Appanoose
- When
- May 5, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Appanoose County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.700, -92.680
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, May 5, 1971
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 5, 1971
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 5, 1971
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 5, 1971
- Tornado in Mississippi, May 5, 1971
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 5, 1971
- Hail in Illinois, May 5, 1971
- Hail in Indiana, May 5, 1971
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, May 5, 1971
More
Every storm in Iowa in 1971Every state in 1971This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Iowa, 1971
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: 10011344, 10011345, 10011346, 10011347, 10011348, 10011349, 10011350.