Tornado, Taylor
- When
- May 27, 1:50 PM CST to 1:54 PM CST
- Where
- Taylor County, Blockton
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 45 yd
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Coordinates
- 40.620, -94.470
Tornado in Iowa, May 27, 1996
An upper level low pressure system was over Nebraska during the afternoon hours. The cold air aloft had worked into Iowa making for an unstable atmosphere.
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
- $2,000
- 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 DMX wrote it up.
An upper level low pressure system was over Nebraska during the afternoon hours. The cold air aloft had worked into Iowa making for an unstable atmosphere. A spiral line of thunderstorms developed and rotated north, up the east side of the upper low. There were numerous reports of cold air funnels with a few brief tornado touchdowns. Little damage was reported, however one tornado damaged the Mayors house in Blockton as it touched down.
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 138 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:49 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.
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The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, May 27, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, May 27, 1996
- Flood in Nebraska, May 27 to 29, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 27, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 27, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 27, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 27, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 27, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 27, 1996
More
Every storm in Iowa in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Iowa, 1996Warnings in Iowa, May 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: 5544490.