Thunderstorm Wind, Buchanan
- When
- June 23, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Buchanan County
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Coordinates
- 42.470, -91.880
Tornado and Hail in Iowa, June 23, 1981
10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 15
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
10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Fayette
- When
- June 23, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Fayette County
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Coordinates
- 42.680, -91.900
Hail, Worth
- When
- June 23, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Worth County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 43.280, -93.200
Hail, Mitchell
- When
- June 23, 5:25 PM CST
- Where
- Mitchell County
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 43.450, -93.000
Hail, Kossuth
- When
- June 23, 6:15 PM CST
- Where
- Kossuth County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 43.220, -94.430
Thunderstorm Wind, Webster
- When
- June 23, 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Webster County
- Coordinates
- 42.370, -94.350
Thunderstorm Wind, Kossuth
- When
- June 23, 6:40 PM CST
- Where
- Kossuth County
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Coordinates
- 43.070, -94.230
Thunderstorm Wind, Chickasaw
- When
- June 23, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Chickasaw County
- Coordinates
- 43.070, -92.330
Thunderstorm Wind, Sioux
- When
- June 23, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Sioux County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 43.080, -96.180
Thunderstorm Wind, Sioux
- When
- June 23, 7:50 PM CST
- Where
- Sioux County
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Coordinates
- 43.180, -96.530
Thunderstorm Wind, Cherokee
- When
- June 23, 8:20 PM CST
- Where
- Cherokee County
- Coordinates
- 42.800, -95.630
Thunderstorm Wind, Story
- When
- June 23, 9:38 PM CST
- Where
- Story County
- Coordinates
- 42.030, -93.450
Hail, Boone
- When
- June 23, 10:35 PM CST
- Where
- Boone County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.080, -93.920
Tornado, Calhoun
- When
- June 23, 10:40 PM CST
- Where
- Calhoun County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 42.550, -94.680
Thunderstorm Wind, Warren
- When
- June 23, 11:35 PM CST
- Where
- Warren County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 41.500, -93.500
What these are
- 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.
- 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 Minnesota, June 23, 1981
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 23, 1981
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, June 23, 1981
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, June 23, 1981
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 23, 1981
- Damaging Winds in Texas, June 23, 1981
- Tornadoes and Hail in Louisiana, June 23, 1981
- Damaging Winds in Colorado, June 23, 1981
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 23, 1981
- Hail in Mississippi, June 23, 1981
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 23, 1981
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: 10012661, 10012662, 10012663, 10012664, 10012665, 10012878, 10012879, 10012880, 10012881, 10012882, 10012883, 10012884, 10012885, 10012886, 10012887.