Tornado, Howard
- When
- August 19, 6:00 PM CST to 6:05 PM CST
- Where
- Howard County, Davis Corners to 2 mi NE of Davis Corners
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Crop damage
- $2,000
- Coordinates
- 43.400, -92.300
Tornado in Iowa, August 19, 1996
A small tornado was reported by law enforcement officials and the public just north of Davis Corners during the early evening. The tornado moved across open fields for several hundred yards, flattening corn, but did not hit any buildings.
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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- $2,000
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS ARX wrote it up.
A small tornado was reported by law enforcement officials and the public just north of Davis Corners during the early evening. The tornado moved across open fields for several hundred yards, flattening corn, but did not hit any buildings.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Lightning Strike in Iowa, August 19, 1996
- Tornado in Michigan, August 19, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 19, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 19, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, August 19, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 19, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 19, 1996
More
Every storm in Iowa in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Iowa, 1996Warnings in Iowa, August 1996
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: 5568555.