Tornado, Appanoose
- When
- May 9, 12:50 AM CST to 12:52 AM CST
- Where
- Appanoose County, Moravia
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.7 mi
- Path width
- 35 yd
- Property damage
- $70,000
- Coordinates
- 40.880, -92.880
Tornado in Iowa, May 9, 1996
A tornado touched down near Moravia in Appanoose County. It was on the ground for a little over a half mile and fortunately only damaged one farm.
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
- $70,000
- 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.
A tornado touched down near Moravia in Appanoose County. It was on the ground for a little over a half mile and fortunately only damaged one farm. There was damage to several buildings on the farm.
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 118 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:48 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
- Tornado in Kansas, May 9, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, May 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in Michigan, May 9 to 10, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, May 9, 1996
- Tornado in Iowa, May 9, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, May 9, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, May 9, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, May 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in Iowa, May 9, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, May 9, 1996
- Flooding in Iowa, May 9 to 13, 1996
- Flooding in Tennessee, May 9 to 23, 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: 5545085.