(Red Oak, Iowa) – The Montgomery County Emergency Management Agency reports a tornado that began Tuesday afternoon near Red Oak, was rated as an EF-1, which typically packs winds of 86-to 110-miles per hour. Emergency Management Director Brian Hamman says the brief tornado was confirmed by video, emergency management and a National Weather Service survey team in the southwest sections of Red Oak.

The 75-yard wide tornado began at around 2:37-p.m. south of the railroad tracks about one-quarter of a mile east of G Avenue, damaging trees, before moving into the industrial area south of Coolbaugh Avenue, where the twister damaged a commercial garage. The tornado continued northeast, damaging trees before ending just north of the intersection of West 2nd Street and West Reed Street (just under one-mile from where it started). The survey team continues to collect information from multiple sources, and results are subject to change.