Tornado in Iowa, April 8, 1999

Name: Tornado in Iowa, April 8, 1999
Start: 1999-04-08T13:36
End: 1999-04-08T13:46
Location: Iowa

April 8, 1999 · NWS OAX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 1
Property damage: $100,000
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.

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 130 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:36 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Page

When: April 8, 1:36 PM CST to 1:46 PM CST
Where: Page County, College Spgs to Clarinda
Rating: F1
Path length: 8 mi
Path width: 440 yd
Injuries: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $100,000
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 40.620, -95.120

Of the 12 tornadoes reported over eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa on 4/8/99, this one produced the only injury, to a woman who suffered minor cuts due to flying glass. The tornado touched down just southwest of College Springs, tracked west of that town and then lifted just southwest of Clarinda. Several houses sustained strong f1 damage including one workshop that was destroyed. Much of the damage was due to flying corrugated steel and wood debris with roofs sustaining the most damage.

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

Every storm in Iowa in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Iowa, 1999 Warnings in Iowa, April 1999

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: 5695941.