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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 1989

36 tornado warnings in 1989. 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 1989. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
36
Busiest month
May18 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 25, 19899 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
Apr 22, 10:35 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXHumboldt23 min
Apr 26, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone30 min
Apr 26, 3:46 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Story44 min
Apr 26, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPolk45 min
Apr 26, 4:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Polk51 min
Apr 27, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDavis, Van Buren22 min
Apr 27, 7:29 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie31 min
Apr 27, 7:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXVan Buren27 min
Apr 27, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison33 min
Apr 27, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth25 min
Apr 27, 8:27 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont33 min
Apr 27, 8:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Carroll, Sac61 min
May 23, 8:07 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon, Osceola38 min
May 24, 3:19 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXLucas, Warren41 min
May 24, 5:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdams26 min
May 24, 6:02 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXUnion58 min
May 24, 6:24 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdams16 min
May 24, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHamilton41 min
May 24, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXRinggold, Union55 min
May 24, 7:06 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHardin, Story39 min
May 24, 7:38 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDecatur67 min
May 24, 7:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMarshall45 min
May 24, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPoweshiek, Tama50 min
May 24, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXChickasaw, Fayette, Winneshiek29 min
May 24, 8:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBenton, Iowa56 min
May 24, 10:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJohnson, Washington23 min
May 24, 10:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLouisa, Muscatine26 min
May 24, 11:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNMuscatine, Scott18 min
May 30, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHardin30 min
May 30, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGrundy48 min
Jun 26, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXKeokuk, Wapello35 min
Aug 4, 8:50 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXChickasaw25 min
Aug 21, 6:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills, Pottawattamie50 min
Sep 7, 8:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCrawford33 min
Sep 7, 10:26 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXShelby34 min
Sep 8, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Mills30 min

By county

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

3 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 25, 19899tornado warnings
  2. April 28, 19897tornado warnings
  3. May 24, 19897tornado warnings
  4. April 26, 19894tornado warnings
  5. May 31, 19892tornado warnings
  6. September 8, 19892tornado warnings
  7. April 22, 19891tornado warnings
  8. June 26, 19891tornado warnings
  9. August 5, 19891tornado warnings
  10. August 21, 19891tornado warnings
  11. September 9, 19891tornado 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.