Tornado, Bremer
- When
- June 16, 2:50 PM CST to 3:06 PM CST
- Where
- Bremer County, Waverly to 5 mi of Frederika
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 10 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Crop damage
- $1,000
- Coordinates
- 42.800, -92.480
Tornado in Iowa, June 16, 1996
Thunderstorms developed rapidly in the unstable air mass over Iowa. A warm front extended from west central into northeast Iowa.
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
- $1,000
- Crop damage
- $1,000
- 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 DMX wrote it up.
Thunderstorms developed rapidly in the unstable air mass over Iowa. A warm front extended from west central into northeast Iowa. Thunderstorms fired just north of the front. One of the storms produced a small tornado that was on the ground intermittently for about 10 miles. Little damage was reported as it traveled across open fields.
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
- Flooding in Wisconsin, June 16 to 20, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Missouri, June 16, 1996
- Flash Flood in Iowa, June 16 to 17, 1996
- Flash Flood in Iowa, June 16 to 17, 1996
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, June 16 to 17, 1996
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, June 16 to 17, 1996
- Flash Flood in Iowa, June 16 to 17, 1996
- Flash Flood in Iowa, June 16 to 17, 1996
- Flash Flood in Iowa, June 16, 1996
- Flash Flood in Iowa, June 16, 1996
- Flash Flood in Virginia, June 16, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 16, 1996
More
Every storm in Iowa in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Iowa, 1996Warnings in Iowa, June 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: 5553464.