Tornado, Page
- When
- May 23, 2:32 PM CST
- Where
- Page County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.700, -95.050
Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, May 23, 1981
10 tornado, 4 hail, 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
- $503,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 14
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 tornado, 4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Montgomery
- When
- May 23, 2:32 PM CST
- Where
- Montgomery County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.130, -95.000
Tornado, Adair
- When
- May 23, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Adair County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.430, -94.650
Tornado, Cass
- When
- May 23, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Cass County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.450, -94.720
Hail, Taylor
- When
- May 23, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Taylor County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.720, -94.730
Hail, Taylor
- When
- May 23, 3:50 PM CST
- Where
- Taylor County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.670, -94.720
Tornado, Adair
- When
- May 23, 4:02 PM CST
- Where
- Adair County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.420, -94.500
Tornado, Adair
- When
- May 23, 4:15 PM CST
- Where
- Adair County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.420, -94.300
Tornado, Madison
- When
- May 23, 4:36 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.450, -94.230
Tornado, Ringgold
- When
- May 23, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ringgold County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 15.9 mi
- Path width
- 130 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.700, -94.320
Tornado, Madison
- When
- May 23, 5:28 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 41.420, -94.080
Tornado, Mitchell
- When
- May 23, 5:55 PM CST
- Where
- Mitchell County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 3.8 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 43.270, -92.920
Hail, Clarke
- When
- May 23, 6:32 PM CST
- Where
- Clarke County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.030, -93.780
Hail, Des Moines
- When
- May 23, 9:05 PM CST
- Where
- Des Moines County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.820, -91.220
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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: 10011748, 10011749, 10011750, 10011751, 10011752, 10011753, 10011754, 10011755, 10011756, 10011757, 10011758, 10011759, 10011760, 10011761.