Tornado, Wayne
- When
- March 23, 3:10 PM CST
- Where
- Wayne County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 40.600, -93.520
Tornado in Iowa, March 23, 1975
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, March 23, 1975
- Tornadoes and Hail in Louisiana, March 23, 1975
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Illinois, March 23, 1975
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, March 23, 1975
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, March 23, 1975
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, March 23, 1975
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, March 23, 1975
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, March 23, 1975
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 23, 1975
- Hail in South Carolina, March 23, 1975
More
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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: 10011457.