Tornado, Dickinson
- When
- July 16, 4:44 PM CST
- Where
- Dickinson County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 3 yd
- Coordinates
- 43.470, -95.100
Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 16, 1984
13 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
- None recorded
- 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
13 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Emmet
- When
- July 16, 5:03 PM CST
- Where
- Emmet County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 3 yd
- Coordinates
- 43.430, -94.880
Thunderstorm Wind, Plymouth
- When
- July 16, 5:43 PM CST
- Where
- Plymouth County
- Coordinates
- 42.780, -96.170
Thunderstorm Wind, Palo Alto
- When
- July 16, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Palo Alto County
- Coordinates
- 43.120, -94.700
Thunderstorm Wind, Black Hawk
- When
- July 16, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Black Hawk County
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph)
- Coordinates
- 42.430, -92.320
Thunderstorm Wind, Buchanan
- When
- July 16, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Buchanan County
- Coordinates
- 42.430, -91.870
Thunderstorm Wind, Carroll
- When
- July 16, 7:10 PM CST
- Where
- Carroll County
- Measured
- 54 kt (62 mph)
- Coordinates
- 42.070, -94.880
Thunderstorm Wind, Black Hawk
- When
- July 16, 7:22 PM CST
- Where
- Black Hawk County
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Coordinates
- 42.500, -92.350
Thunderstorm Wind, Benton
- When
- July 16, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Benton County
- Coordinates
- 42.050, -92.100
Thunderstorm Wind, Benton
- When
- July 16, 7:51 PM CST
- Where
- Benton County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 42.220, -91.870
Thunderstorm Wind, Buchanan
- When
- July 16, 7:53 PM CST
- Where
- Buchanan County
- Measured
- 64 kt (74 mph)
- Coordinates
- 42.450, -91.970
Thunderstorm Wind, Carroll
- When
- July 16, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Carroll County
- Coordinates
- 42.030, -94.870
Thunderstorm Wind, Linn
- When
- July 16, 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- Linn County
- Coordinates
- 42.200, -91.530
Thunderstorm Wind, Linn
- When
- July 16, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Linn County
- Coordinates
- 42.050, -91.620
Thunderstorm Wind, Muscatine
- When
- July 16, 10:26 PM CST
- Where
- Muscatine County
- Coordinates
- 41.480, -91.320
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.
- 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, July 16, 1984
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 16, 1984
- Tornado in Colorado, July 16, 1984
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 16, 1984
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, July 16, 1984
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, July 16, 1984
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 16, 1984
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, July 16, 1984
- Hail in North Dakota, July 16, 1984
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, July 16, 1984
- Damaging Wind in California, July 16, 1984
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 16, 1984
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: 10013943, 10013944, 10013945, 10013946, 10012453, 10012454, 10012455, 10012456, 10012457, 10012458, 10012459, 10012460, 10012461, 10012462, 10012463.