Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, April 2016
21 severe thunderstorm warnings in April 2016. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 21
- Busiest day
- April 27, 20169 severe thunderstorm warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 34 min |
| Apr 24, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 41 min |
| Apr 24, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Plymouth, Woodbury | 39 min |
| Apr 24, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 30 min |
| Apr 24, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Ida, Plymouth, Woodbury | 47 min |
| Apr 24, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, O'Brien | 33 min |
| Apr 24, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Plymouth, Woodbury | 24 min |
| Apr 24, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet, Kossuth, Palo Alto | 27 min |
| Apr 24, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Dickinson, O'Brien, Osceola | 18 min |
| Apr 24, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 42 min |
| Apr 24, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Cass, Union | 36 min |
| Apr 27, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont, Page | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills, Pottawattamie | 27 min |
| Apr 27, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 41 min |
| Apr 27, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Montgomery, Pottawattamie | 36 min |
| Apr 27, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Taylor | 48 min |
| Apr 27, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cass | 46 min |
| Apr 27, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair, Clarke, Madison, Ringgold, Union | 48 min |
| Apr 27, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Van Buren | 24 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County4
- Fremont County4
- Mills County4
- Monona County3
- Plymouth County3
- Woodbury County3
- Montgomery County3
- Page County3
- Buena Vista County2
- Clay County2
- O'Brien County2
- Adair County2
- Cass County2
- Union County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Ida County1
- Emmet County1
- Kossuth County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Dickinson County1
- Osceola County1
- Adams County1
- Taylor County1
- Clarke County1
- Madison County1
- Ringgold County1
- Van Buren County1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.