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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 1992

37 tornado warnings in 1992. 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 1992. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
37
Busiest month
June19 tornado warnings
Busiest day
June 17, 199210 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 6, 2:42 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXBoone15 min
Mar 6, 3:05 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXWarren11 min
Apr 15, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPocahontas30 min
Apr 15, 4:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHumboldt25 min
Apr 20, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXKeokuk27 min
May 16, 7:13 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDWoodbury47 min
Jun 16, 1:04 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont56 min
Jun 16, 2:25 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Page50 min
Jun 16, 3:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk57 min
Jun 16, 3:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk64 min
Jun 16, 3:21 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBremer39 min
Jun 16, 8:59 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison31 min
Jun 16, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison30 min
Jun 16, 9:34 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon41 min
Jun 16, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDSioux30 min
Jun 16, 10:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCrawford42 min
Jun 16, 10:51 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDIda24 min
Jun 16, 11:06 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDO'Brien24 min
Jun 16, 11:59 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie31 min
Jun 17, 12:07 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills38 min
Jun 17, 12:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNClinton25 min
Jun 19, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNClayton36 min
Jun 19, 8:36 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXIowa, Johnson28 min
Jun 23, 4:02 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXFayette58 min
Jun 23, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHamilton, Hardin20 min
Jul 2, 9:50 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXMarshall25 min
Jul 2, 9:50 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXStory20 min
Jul 2, 2:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMahaska32 min
Jul 2, 3:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXKeokuk, Wapello21 min
Jul 4, 8:58 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMontgomery32 min
Jul 9, 6:38 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDSioux37 min
Jul 11, 8:23 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMonona37 min
Jul 13, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJones25 min
Jul 15, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAudubon, Cass53 min
Jul 15, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCass45 min
Jul 15, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXUnion34 min
Jul 15, 7:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWebster40 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. June 17, 199210tornado warnings
  2. June 16, 19925tornado warnings
  3. July 2, 19924tornado warnings
  4. July 15, 19923tornado warnings
  5. March 6, 19922tornado warnings
  6. April 15, 19922tornado warnings
  7. June 23, 19922tornado warnings
  8. April 20, 19921tornado warnings
  9. May 17, 19921tornado warnings
  10. June 19, 19921tornado warnings
  11. June 20, 19921tornado warnings
  12. July 5, 19921tornado 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.