Tornado, Muscatine
- When
- June 14, 5:01 PM CST to 5:02 PM CST
- Where
- Muscatine County, 1 mi ENE of Montpelier
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 41.467, -90.800
Tornadoes in Iowa, June 14, 2001
An F2 tornado touched down at 501 pm CST, around a half mile east/northeast of Montpelier, near Highway 22 and the Muscatine/Scott County line. 5 miles, and was 200 yards wide.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 3
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 DVN wrote it up.
An F2 tornado touched down at 501 pm CST, around a half mile east/northeast of Montpelier, near Highway 22 and the Muscatine/Scott County line. The tornado then tracked northeast into Scott County, was on the ground about 6.5 miles, and was 200 yards wide. The tornado ripped the roof off of three homes in Blue Grass, and produced lesser damage to many other homes. Three people in Blue Grass sustained minor injuries. The tornado produced F2 damage in the area around Normandy Street in Blue Grass, before lifting 2.5 miles northeast of the community at 506 pm CST.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 14, 2:44 PM CST, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:44 PM CST, 2 hours 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 344 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001 NOTE TO MEDIA AND OTHER CUSTOMERS...THE ZONES WILL BE LATE SO AS TO INCLUDE A NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TO BE ISSUED SHORTLY BY SPC. WE WILL ISSUE THEM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE INCLUDING THE UPDATED WATCH INFORMATION. .DVN... IA...NONE. IL...NONE. MO...NONE. WOLF
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 14, 1:25 PM CST, 3 hours 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
225 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0219 PM MOLINE IL .25 INCH HAIL
06/14/01 ROCK ISLAND REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Local storm report, Jun 14, 1:39 PM CST, 3 hours 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
239 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0230 PM BETTENDORF IA URBAN FLOODING
06/14/01 SCOTT REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Local storm report, Jun 14, 1:58 PM CST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
258 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0230 PM DAVENPORT IA .5 INCH HAIL
06/14/01 SCOTT REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Local storm report, Jun 14, 2:01 PM CST, 3 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
301 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0245 PM MT AUBURN IA NON TSTM WINDS
06/14/01 BENTON 60 MPH NON TSTM WINDS.
SUSTAINED 55 MPH WITH
GUSTS TO 60 MPH WINDS
REPORTED BY FIRE DEPT.Local storm report, Jun 14, 2:54 PM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
354 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0245 PM VINTON IA NON SVR WIND DAMAGE
06/14/01 BENTON 2 LARGE TREES UPROOTED
ON SEPARATE FARMS 2 SW
OF VINTON. NUMEROUS
BRANCHES DOWN AND POWER
OUTAGE IN VINTON.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.Local storm report, Jun 14, 3:38 PM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
438 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0315 PM MOLINE IL FLOOD
06/14/01 ROCK ISLAND MAJOR STREET FLOODING.
REPORTED BY MEDIA.
0315 PM EAST MOLINE IL FLOOD
06/14/01 ROCK ISLAND MAJOR STREET FLOODING.
REPORTED BY MEDIA.
0330 PM BETTENDORF IA FLOOD
06/14/01 SCOTT MAJOR STREET
FLOODING...ESPECIALLY
ON STATE ST. REPORTED
BY MEDIA.
0345 PM BETTENDORF IA FLOOD
06/14/01 SCOTT 5-CAR ACCIDENT ON
INTERSTATE 74 BRIDGE
APPROACH TO MISSISSIPPI
RIVER. 2 CARS TOWED.
ACCIDENT WAS WATER
RELATED. REPORTED BY
MEDIA.
0400 PM DAVENPORT IA FLOOD
06/14/01 SCOTT STREET FLOODING. WATER
COVERING RIVER DR ON
EAST SIDE OF DOWNTOWN
DAVENPORT. REPORTED BY
MEDIA.
0420 PM 4 NE BETTENDORF IA FLOOD
06/14/01 SCOTT SPENCER CR BRIDGE UNDER
WATER AT 249TH AVE.
ROAD IMPAmSSIBLE.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 24 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:00 UTC.
Event by event
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Scott
- When
- June 14, 5:02 PM CST to 5:06 PM CST
- Where
- Scott County, 2 mi SSW of Blue Grass
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 6.4 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 41.483, -90.783
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
- Heat in Texas, June 14, 2001
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- Wildfire in California, June 14 to 20, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 14, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Kansas, June 14, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 14, 2001
- Extreme Cold in Colorado, June 14, 2001
- Flash Flood in Missouri, June 14, 2001
- Flash Flood in Arkansas, June 14 to 15, 2001
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 14, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Iowa, June 14, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 14, 2001
More
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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: 5255362, 5255363.