Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2022

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, May 2022

78 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings: 78
Busiest day: May 30, 202215 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
May 9, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Howard, Mitchell	64 min
May 9, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Howard, Winneshiek	47 min
May 11, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Dickinson, Osceola	36 min
May 11, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Clay, Dickinson	36 min
May 11, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Emmet, Kossuth, Palo Alto	61 min
May 11, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Emmet, Kossuth, Palo Alto	48 min
May 12, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury	40 min
May 12, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FSD	Lyon	50 min
May 12, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FSD	Cherokee, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux and 1 more	37 min
May 12, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FSD	Lyon	47 min
May 12, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien and 3 more	38 min
May 12, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux	23 min
May 12, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, O'Brien, Osceola	39 min
May 12, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Emmet, Kossuth, Palo Alto	29 min
May 12, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Plymouth, Woodbury	46 min
May 12, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Harrison, Monona, Pottawattamie	51 min
May 12, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Cherokee, Ida, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury	43 min
May 12, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DMX	Crawford	38 min
May 12, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Cherokee, Ida, Woodbury	46 min
May 12, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Lyon, Sioux	43 min
May 12, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Ida, O'Brien, Plymouth and 1 more	40 min
May 12, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Lyon, Osceola, Sioux	44 min
May 12, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Lyon, Osceola	47 min
May 12, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Buena Vista, Clay, Dickinson, Osceola	47 min
May 12, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Emmet, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas	41 min
May 12, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Dickinson	41 min
May 14, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Shelby	23 min
May 14, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Marshall, Story	39 min
May 14, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Montgomery	38 min
May 14, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont	28 min
May 17, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Page	22 min
May 17, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Taylor	48 min
May 17, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Ringgold, Taylor	45 min
May 17, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Decatur, Wayne	40 min
May 17, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Decatur	43 min
May 17, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Shelby	19 min
May 17, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Mills, Pottawattamie	53 min
May 18, 1:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison, Shelby	28 min
May 18, 1:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison, Shelby	27 min
May 18, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison, Shelby	32 min
May 19, 11:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Winnebago, Worth	51 min
May 19, 11:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DMX	Worth	33 min
May 19, 12:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ARX	Mitchell	44 min
May 19, 12:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ARX	Howard, Mitchell	24 min
May 19, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Monona	27 min
May 19, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Ida	27 min
May 20, 6:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Lee	32 min
May 26, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clinton, Scott	21 min
May 29, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Lyon	41 min
May 29, 4:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Lyon, Osceola	49 min
May 29, 5:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Dickinson, Osceola	54 min
May 29, 7:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Cerro Gordo, Franklin	32 min
May 30, 2:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux	45 min
May 30, 2:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Dickinson, Lyon, Osceola	65 min
May 30, 5:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford, Sac	43 min
May 30, 6:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, O'Brien	35 min
May 30, 7:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay, Dickinson, O'Brien, Osceola	34 min
May 30, 8:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Plymouth, Sioux	30 min
May 30, 8:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux	11 min
May 30, 8:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Cherokee, Ida, Plymouth, Woodbury	34 min
May 30, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon	31 min
May 30, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay, Dickinson, O'Brien, Osceola	30 min
May 30, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Dickinson	24 min
May 30, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay, Dickinson	15 min
May 30, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Dickinson	35 min
May 30, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux	45 min
May 30, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon	29 min
May 30, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Butler, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Hamilton, Hardin, Wright	39 min
May 30, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Floyd	44 min
May 30, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Mills	41 min
May 30, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Chickasaw, Howard, Mitchell	38 min
May 30, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Shelby	23 min
May 30, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie	52 min
May 30, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie	40 min
May 31, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Howard	51 min
May 31, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Clarke, Decatur, Lucas, Wayne	33 min
May 31, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Lucas, Mahaska, Marion, Monroe	31 min
May 31, 3:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Mahaska	37 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.