Hail, Harrison
- When
- March 29, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Harrison County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.650, -95.800
Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, March 29, 1979
6 tornado, 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 21
- Property damage
- $7.8 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 11
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
6 tornado, 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Sioux
- When
- March 29, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Sioux County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 43.080, -96.180
Tornado, Page
- When
- March 29, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Page County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 10.8 mi
- Path width
- 500 yd
- Injuries
- 16 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 40.570, -95.030
Tornado, Taylor
- When
- March 29, 6:10 PM CST
- Where
- Taylor County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 29.6 mi
- Path width
- 500 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 40.580, -94.950
Tornado, Union
- When
- March 29, 7:05 PM CST
- Where
- Union County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 33.5 mi
- Path width
- 500 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 40.770, -94.380
Tornado, Madison
- When
- March 29, 7:55 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 13.6 mi
- Path width
- 500 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Coordinates
- 41.170, -94.020
Tornado, Warren
- When
- March 29, 8:20 PM CST
- Where
- Warren County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 9.9 mi
- Path width
- 500 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Coordinates
- 41.270, -93.780
Hail, Webster
- When
- March 29, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Webster County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.500, -94.180
Tornado, Warren
- When
- March 29, 8:40 PM CST
- Where
- Warren County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 9.3 mi
- Path width
- 60 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 41.430, -93.500
Hail, Clayton
- When
- March 29, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Clayton County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.780, -91.100
Thunderstorm Wind, Howard
- When
- March 29, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Howard County
- Coordinates
- 43.370, -92.450
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.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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: 10014727, 10014728, 10014729, 10014730, 10011597, 10011598, 10011599, 10011600, 10011601, 10011602, 10011603.