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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 1993

47 tornado warnings in 1993. 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 1993. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
47
Busiest month
June27 tornado warnings
Busiest day
June 30, 19938 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
May 27, 7:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMarshall27 min
May 27, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk33 min
Jun 7, 6:34 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDO'Brien26 min
Jun 7, 6:39 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDO'Brien21 min
Jun 7, 6:44 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon, Sioux21 min
Jun 7, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDOsceola25 min
Jun 7, 7:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDickinson26 min
Jun 8, 11:52 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXWinneshiek38 min
Jun 8, 1:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWorth49 min
Jun 8, 1:48 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWright27 min
Jun 8, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWashington29 min
Jun 8, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry, Louisa34 min
Jun 13, 4:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCass27 min
Jun 13, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWarren35 min
Jun 13, 9:59 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJones31 min
Jun 16, 7:22 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXWebster23 min
Jun 17, 2:48 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXChickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell42 min
Jun 19, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDubuque25 min
Jun 24, 4:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry20 min
Jun 24, 4:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLouisa33 min
Jun 29, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXKossuth32 min
Jun 29, 7:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHumboldt, Pocahontas25 min
Jun 29, 8:17 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Greene28 min
Jun 29, 8:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun31 min
Jun 29, 8:50 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Greene25 min
Jun 29, 8:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCrawford33 min
Jun 29, 9:20 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Polk, Story25 min
Jun 29, 9:27 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXShelby33 min
Jun 29, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Polk26 min
Jul 1, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon30 min
Jul 2, 7:06 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXIowa24 min
Jul 2, 8:43 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNClinton62 min
Jul 4, 3:36 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills16 min
Jul 8, 6:03 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison27 min
Jul 8, 6:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison23 min
Jul 8, 8:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll, Crawford19 min
Jul 8, 9:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone36 min
Jul 8, 9:31 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXChickasaw29 min
Jul 8, 9:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Dallas38 min
Jul 8, 10:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDallas, Polk27 min
Jul 10, 1:38 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCerro Gordo22 min
Jul 10, 2:21 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXChickasaw, Floyd39 min
Jul 24, 9:13 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Mills32 min
Jul 24, 9:44 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Mills31 min
Aug 9, 6:02 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXChickasaw28 min
Aug 11, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Page30 min
Aug 11, 7:36 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPage39 min

By county

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

2 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. June 30, 19938tornado warnings
  2. June 8, 19936tornado warnings
  3. July 9, 19935tornado warnings
  4. June 7, 19934tornado warnings
  5. May 28, 19932tornado warnings
  6. June 13, 19932tornado warnings
  7. June 24, 19932tornado warnings
  8. July 3, 19932tornado warnings
  9. July 8, 19932tornado warnings
  10. July 10, 19932tornado warnings
  11. July 25, 19932tornado warnings
  12. June 14, 19931tornado 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.