Tornado, Crawford
- When
- May 7, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Crawford County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 41.820, -95.500
Tornadoes in Iowa, May 7, 1975
5 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
- $325,000
- 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
5 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Shelby
- When
- May 7, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Shelby County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 9.9 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 41.650, -95.220
Tornado, Union
- When
- May 7, 6:15 PM CST
- Where
- Union County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.070, -94.370
Tornado, Decatur
- When
- May 7, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Decatur County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.820, -93.830
Tornado, Clarke
- When
- May 7, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Clarke County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 10 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 41.030, -93.780
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, May 7, 1975
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 7, 1975
- Tornado and Hail in Louisiana, May 7, 1975
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, May 7, 1975
- Hail in Kansas, May 7, 1975
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 7, 1975
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, May 7, 1975
- Hail in Missouri, May 7, 1975
More
Every storm in Iowa in 1975Every state in 1975This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Iowa, 1975
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: 10011471, 10011472, 10011473, 10011474, 10011475.