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.
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