Tornado, Boone
- When
- July 17, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Boone County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 42.000, -93.970
Tornado and Hail in Iowa, July 17, 1982
1 tornado, 1 hail, 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
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Polk
- When
- July 17, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.750, -93.480
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Michigan, July 17, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 17, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, July 17, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 17, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, July 17, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 17, 1982
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 17, 1982
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 17, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Maine, July 17, 1982
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 17, 1982
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 17, 1982
- Hail in North Carolina, July 17, 1982
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: 10014082, 10014083.