Tornado, Plymouth
- When
- July 1, 4:40 PM CST to 4:42 PM CST
- Where
- Plymouth County, Westfield
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 42.750, -96.600
Tornado in Iowa, July 1, 1996
Emergency management officials reported a brief tornado touchdown with no damage.
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
- None recorded
- 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 FSD wrote it up.
Emergency management officials reported a brief tornado touchdown with no damage.
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:39 UTC.
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
- Heat in Oklahoma, July 1 to 7, 1996
- Heat in Texas, July 1 to 9, 1996
- Heat in Texas, July 1 to 9, 1996
- Drought in Texas, July 1 to 31, 1996
- Heat in Texas, July 1 to 9, 1996
- Heat in Louisiana, July 1, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 1, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 1, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 1, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 1, 1996
- Tornado in Nebraska, July 1, 1996
- Hail in South Dakota, July 1, 1996
More
Every storm in Iowa in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Iowa, 1996Warnings in Iowa, July 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: 5556610.