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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 1988

22 tornado warnings in 1988. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1988. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
22
Busiest month
May15 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 8, 198815 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 3:08 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXCerro Gordo37 min
May 7, 11:04 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie26 min
May 8, 12:01 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper29 min
May 8, 12:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper45 min
May 8, 1:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPoweshiek27 min
May 8, 2:01 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXIowa, Poweshiek29 min
May 8, 2:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXKeokuk, Mahaska49 min
May 8, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXIowa30 min
May 8, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJohnson40 min
May 8, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar35 min
May 8, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWashington30 min
May 8, 3:08 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLouisa, Muscatine37 min
May 8, 3:13 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJones47 min
May 8, 3:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNClayton, Delaware, Dubuque48 min
May 8, 3:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNScott34 min
May 8, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNClinton42 min
Jul 9, 1:28 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGuthrie32 min
Jul 15, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie34 min
Jul 15, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills, Pottawattamie31 min
Aug 8, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXLucas, Marion, Warren28 min
Nov 15, 4:38 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXMonroe37 min
Nov 15, 9:08 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNDelaware22 min

By county

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

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 8, 198815tornado warnings
  2. July 15, 19882tornado warnings
  3. March 24, 19881tornado warnings
  4. July 9, 19881tornado warnings
  5. August 8, 19881tornado warnings
  6. November 15, 19881tornado warnings
  7. November 16, 19881tornado warnings

Nearby

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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.