Hail, Harrison
- When
- May 6, 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Harrison County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.570, -95.900
Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, May 6, 1983
10 thunderstorm wind, 5 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
- $3.0 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 19
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, 5 tornado, 4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Harrison
- When
- May 6, 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Harrison County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.750, -95.800
Thunderstorm Wind, Mills
- When
- May 6, 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Mills County
- Coordinates
- 41.050, -95.400
Tornado, Harrison
- When
- May 6, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Harrison County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 15 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 41.570, -95.950
Thunderstorm Wind, Harrison
- When
- May 6, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Harrison County
- Coordinates
- 41.670, -95.780
Thunderstorm Wind, Fremont
- When
- May 6, 5:10 PM CST
- Where
- Fremont County
- Coordinates
- 40.730, -95.600
Hail, Audubon
- When
- May 6, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Audubon County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.670, -94.920
Thunderstorm Wind, Harrison
- When
- May 6, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Harrison County
- Coordinates
- 41.670, -95.780
Thunderstorm Wind, Page
- When
- May 6, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Page County
- Coordinates
- 40.770, -95.030
Tornado, Page
- When
- May 6, 5:50 PM CST
- Where
- Page County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.830, -95.020
Thunderstorm Wind, Union
- When
- May 6, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Union County
- Coordinates
- 41.070, -94.370
Tornado, Dallas
- When
- May 6, 6:56 PM CST
- Where
- Dallas County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 41.550, -94.100
Tornado, Polk
- When
- May 6, 6:58 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 41.670, -93.620
Tornado, Polk
- When
- May 6, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 60 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 41.580, -93.530
Thunderstorm Wind, Warren
- When
- May 6, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Warren County
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Coordinates
- 41.180, -93.730
Hail, Polk
- When
- May 6, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.730, -93.620
Thunderstorm Wind, Polk
- When
- May 6, 7:16 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Coordinates
- 41.530, -93.670
Thunderstorm Wind, Warren
- When
- May 6, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Warren County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 41.470, -93.420
Thunderstorm Wind, Linn
- When
- May 6, 9:06 PM CST
- Where
- Linn County
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph)
- Coordinates
- 41.880, -91.720
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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.
- 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
More
Every storm in Iowa in 1983Every state in 1983This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Iowa, 1983
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: 10015226, 10015227, 10015228, 10015229, 10015230, 10015231, 10015232, 10015233, 10015234, 10015235, 10015236, 10015237, 10015238, 10015239, 10015240, 10015241, 10015242, 10015243, 10015244.