Tornado in Iowa, October 31, 2000

Name: Tornado in Iowa, October 31, 2000
Start: 2000-10-31T20:08
End: 2000-10-31T20:12
Location: Iowa

October 31, 2000 · 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: 0
Property damage: $40,000
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), 62 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:06 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Mills

When: October 31, 8:08 PM CST to 8:12 PM CST
Where: Mills County, 3 mi SSE of Glenwood
Rating: F1
Path length: 2.5 mi
Path width: 70 yd
Property damage: $40,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 41.017, -95.750

A tornado touched down around 3 miles south southeast of Glenwood Iowa and tracked to just east of town before lifting. The tornado badly damaged a trailer home 1 mile east of Glenwood, and also blew some power poles onto a railroad track which were then run over by a train knocking power out to residents near Glenwood. A large Vinyl Fence was also destroyed, and part of a roof of another house was damaged.

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

Every storm in Iowa in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Iowa, 2000 Warnings in Iowa, October 2000

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: 5157994.