Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2016

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, May 2016

68 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 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 May 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings: 68
Busiest day: May 26, 201626 severe thunderstorm warnings

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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
May 3, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Clayton, Fayette	27 min
May 9, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Plymouth, Woodbury	34 min
May 9, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Mills	24 min
May 9, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon, Guthrie	32 min
May 9, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon, Guthrie	45 min
May 9, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Page	45 min
May 9, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon, Carroll, Greene, Guthrie	45 min
May 9, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Montgomery, Page	30 min
May 9, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon, Carroll, Crawford	37 min
May 11, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Mills	32 min
May 11, 3:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	33 min
May 11, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Cedar, Clinton	65 min
May 11, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clinton	43 min
May 13, 11:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair, Cass	49 min
May 13, 12:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair, Madison, Union	23 min
May 23, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Plymouth, Woodbury	33 min
May 23, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Plymouth	23 min
May 23, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux	46 min
May 23, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Plymouth	36 min
May 23, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon, Osceola	39 min
May 23, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Cherokee, Plymouth	37 min
May 23, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Cherokee, Clay, O'Brien	23 min
May 25, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Emmet	44 min
May 25, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux	51 min
May 25, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay, Dickinson, O'Brien, Osceola	48 min
May 26, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Page	27 min
May 26, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Emmet, Kossuth, Palo Alto	45 min
May 26, 1:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison, Pottawattamie	23 min
May 26, 1:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison, Monona	26 min
May 26, 1:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Monona	23 min
May 26, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hancock, Kossuth, Winnebago	34 min
May 26, 2:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford, Greene and 1 more	50 min
May 26, 2:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Dallas, Polk	45 min
May 26, 2:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Cerro Gordo, Worth	28 min
May 26, 2:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Mitchell	54 min
May 26, 2:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Dallas, Greene, Guthrie and 4 more	51 min
May 26, 3:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Jasper, Marshall, Polk, Story	39 min
May 26, 3:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Grundy, Hardin, Marshall, Story	39 min
May 26, 4:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Black Hawk, Grundy, Marshall, Tama	29 min
May 26, 4:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Black Hawk, Bremer, Tama	26 min
May 26, 4:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Linn	51 min
May 26, 4:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Cedar, Jones, Linn	40 min
May 26, 4:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Clayton, Fayette	53 min
May 26, 4:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Delaware	34 min
May 26, 4:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Iowa, Johnson	31 min
May 26, 5:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Allamakee	47 min
May 26, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Page	25 min
May 26, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Page	21 min
May 28, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Cedar, Delaware, Dubuque, Jones	50 min
May 28, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clinton, Scott	50 min
May 30, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hamilton, Story	26 min
May 30, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Hamilton	28 min
May 30, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	25 min
May 30, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hamilton	33 min
May 30, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Dallas	24 min
May 30, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Franklin, Hamilton, Hardin, Wright	30 min
May 30, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Franklin, Wright	22 min
May 30, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Carroll	28 min
May 30, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Dallas	29 min
May 30, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Dallas, Greene	34 min
May 30, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Calhoun	27 min
May 30, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Fayette	67 min
May 30, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Black Hawk	25 min
May 30, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Cedar, Jones, Linn	32 min
May 30, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Chickasaw, Fayette, Winneshiek	40 min
May 30, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison, Shelby	26 min
May 31, 10:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clinton, Jackson	35 min
May 31, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Worth	18 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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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. Rebuilt daily.