Iowa storm reports for May 26, 2013

Name: NOAA storm reports, Iowa, May 26, 2013
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 7 hail reports and 1 tornado report in Iowa on May 26, 2013.

in Iowa; 8
Storm reports: About 54 miles from Omaha, NE; 1.25 in
Largest hail: Highest rating EF0, near 40.79, -94.37, IA; 1
Tornado reports

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports.

Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports.

Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on May 26, 2013 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot.

Reports by hour

Hail7, most at 8 PM

Tornado1, most at 7 PM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
7:23 PM	EF0	Near 40.79, -94.37, IA	0.12 mi long, 30 yd wide

Time	Size	Where
4:33 PM	0.75 in	Near 42.19, -95.14, IA
6:45 PM	0.75 in	About 4 miles from Des Moines, IA
7:30 PM	1.25 in	About 54 miles from Omaha, NE
8:00 PM	1.0 in	Near 40.76, -94.56, IA
8:21 PM	1.25 in	Near 40.72, -94.80, IA
8:37 PM	0.88 in	Near 40.67, -94.72, IA
10:55 PM	1.0 in	Near 42.80, -94.42, IA

Cities with reports nearby

Reports within 15 miles of the center of each city we track.

City	Largest hail	Highest gust	Tornado reports
Des Moines, IA	0.75 in	None	0

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.