Thunderstorm Wind, Appanoose
- When
- June 21, 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Appanoose County
- Coordinates
- 40.730, -92.870
Tornado and Hail in Iowa, June 21, 1985
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Davis
- When
- June 21, 5:50 PM CST
- Where
- Davis County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.750, -92.420
Tornado, Black Hawk
- When
- June 21, 6:44 PM CST
- Where
- Black Hawk County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 42.670, -92.170
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 21, 1985
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 21, 1985
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 21, 1985
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Dakota, June 21, 1985
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, June 21, 1985
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 21, 1985
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, June 21, 1985
More
Every storm in Iowa in 1985Every state in 1985This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Iowa, 1985
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: 10015078, 10015079, 10015080.