The National Weather Service has confirmed a tornado touched down near Winthrop on Tuesday night.
Their confirmation is based on video from a spotter with the Winthrop Fire Department, who had captured a brief tornado about a mile west of Winthrop. The tornado touched down around 9 pm over open farmland and stayed on the ground for just over half a mile, reaching a maximum width of about twenty yards. Spotters watched the tornado move east-southeast and lift back up before reaching Winthrop’s city limits.
There was no visible damage, so the National Weather Service did not assign the tornado an EF-scale rating.
A Tornado Warning was issued for Buchanan County on Tuesday night, with funnel clouds spotted over Littleton and Independence prior to the tornado touching down near Winthrop.
photo courtesy of Buchanan County Emergency Management
