Tornado, Des Moines
- When
- May 5, 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Des Moines County
- Path length
- 14.1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.830, -91.270
Tornado in Iowa, May 5, 1977
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
- None recorded
- 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 Illinois, May 5, 1977
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, May 5, 1977
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, May 5, 1977
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 5, 1977
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 5, 1977
- Hail in Missouri, May 5, 1977
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, May 5, 1977
- Hail in Tennessee, May 5, 1977
- Hail in Virginia, May 5, 1977
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 5, 1977
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, May 5, 1977
- Tornado in Indiana, May 5, 1977
More
Every storm in Iowa in 1977Every state in 1977This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Iowa, 1977
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: 10015004.