Event details
Tornado · Confirmed
Muscatine
06.03.2017 · Muscatine · Iowa · United States
Media
0
Sources & links
4
Damages
0
Chasing
0
Radar/Satellite
0
Coordinates
available
Damage track length
2,9 km
Max. width
0,18 km
Duration
5
Injured
0
Fatalities
0
Description
No description has been added yet.
Technical details
- Duration
- 5
- Maximum damage track width
- 0,18 km
- Damage track length
- 2,9 km
- Extent
- 100
- Type in legacy database
- Tornado
- Count
- 1
- Intensity estimate
- Damage assessment by a weather expert
- Intensity source
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_tornadoes_from_January_to_March_2017#March_6_event
- Source type
- Website
- Uncertainty / doubt
- No
- Land use at start
- Land
- Land use at end
- Land
- Surface / terrain
- Land
- Injured
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Location description
- Muscatine
- Area
- Flat
- Continent
- North America
- Geographic accuracy
- 1 km
Sources and further links
4 entries
Source
2
Source
Hauptquelle
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu open externally
Source
Quelle
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu
Link
1
Info
1
Info
Info
A short-lived but damaging tornado tracked through Muscatine, damaging more than 80 homes and several businesses. Two homes suffered total roof loss, one of which sustained collapse of exterior walls. Detached garages were destroyed, and light poles were snapped or bent to the ground. Many trees were downed along the path, and a church in downtown Muscatine sustained considerable damage.
Key facts
- Date
- 06.03.2017
- Time
- 22:05:00
- Location
- Muscatine
- Region
- Iowa
- Country
- United States
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