Hail, Pottawattamie
- When
- July 13, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Pottawattamie County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.400, -95.370
Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, July 13, 1986
9 hail, 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
- $500,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 11
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
9 hail, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Cass
- When
- July 13, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Cass County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.470, -95.100
Hail, Cass
- When
- July 13, 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Cass County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.320, -94.780
Hail, Audubon
- When
- July 13, 8:20 PM CST
- Where
- Audubon County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.520, -94.780
Hail, Cass
- When
- July 13, 8:25 PM CST
- Where
- Cass County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.450, -94.770
Hail, Union
- When
- July 13, 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Union County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.130, -94.070
Hail, Clarke
- When
- July 13, 10:30 PM CST
- Where
- Clarke County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.050, -93.970
Tornado, Clarke
- When
- July 13, 10:47 PM CST
- Where
- Clarke County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 41.020, -93.820
Hail, Clarke
- When
- July 13, 11:05 PM CST
- Where
- Clarke County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.930, -93.600
Tornado, Decatur
- When
- July 13, 11:20 PM CST
- Where
- Decatur County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.880, -93.580
Hail, Wayne
- When
- July 13, 11:35 PM CST
- Where
- Wayne County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.870, -93.480
What these are
- 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
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in New York, July 13, 1986
- Tornadoes in Pennsylvania, July 13, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 13, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 13, 1986
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 13, 1986
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 13, 1986
- Damaging Winds in Wyoming, July 13, 1986
- Damaging Winds in Colorado, July 13, 1986
- Hail in Nebraska, July 13, 1986
- Damaging Winds in West Virginia, July 13, 1986
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 13, 1986
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 13, 1986
More
Every storm in Iowa in 1986Every state in 1986This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Iowa, 1986Warnings in Iowa, July 1986
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: 10015123, 10015124, 10015125, 10015126, 10015127, 10015128, 10015129, 10015130, 10015131, 10015132, 10015133.