SPC Stats
Path length: 1.59 miles
Width: 100 yards
Fatalities: 0
Injuries: 5
Rating: EF2
County: Benton
Ten tornadoes are found on July 17, 2016 in the SPC database. Half of them were in the state of Iowa and all of those occurred during the early AM hours. Our summary today looks at an EF2 tornado that tracked a short distance through Benton County, IA and near the town of Vinton.
The tornado caused damaged for about 2 minutes around 5am local time. The track stayed in the southern parts of Vinton. Per the NWS Quad Cities: Numerous homes lost their roofs. A ball field was struck destroying fencing, the score board and a larger light pole. Some of the worst damage was to a brick apartment building. It was unroofed and had parts of the walls blown out.
Tornado Path
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SPC coordinates: Start: 42.1531 / -92.0327 End: 42.1587 / -92.0025
Note: Exact tornado path may not be straight and/or continuous.
Radar and Damage Photos via NWS Quad Cities
Videos
Tweets
In Vinton, #Iowa surveying the potential tornado damage last night. @WeatherNation pic.twitter.com/LXDtYhGVGa
— Zach Sharpe (@StormChaserZach) July 17, 2016
There were several structures damaged by small tornado in Vinton early this morning. https://t.co/f7pE8jelIb pic.twitter.com/DqSe2d5iHJ
— Blake Baxter (@bbax2) July 17, 2016
Discrepancies:
We gathered information for this event from the SPC & NCDC Databases and the NWS Quad Cities Summary and found the following differences:
Path Length:
- SPC/NCDC have a 1.59 mile path length.
- The summary has a 1.62 mile length.
Time:
- Slight differences on when this tornado occurred.
- The timestamp in the SPC database is 358 CST.
- NCDC has a beginning time of 358 CST and ending time of 4:00 CST.
- The NWS Summary has the time starting at 501am CDT and ending at 502AM CDT.
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