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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 1994

39 tornado warnings in 1994. 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 1994. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
39
Busiest month
July18 tornado warnings
Busiest day
July 6, 19947 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 14, 10:08 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdair37 min
Apr 14, 11:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXStory27 min
May 4, 3:13 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXEmmet32 min
May 25, 8:08 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNClayton22 min
Jun 6, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone50 min
Jun 7, 4:19 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBenton26 min
Jun 12, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDickinson37 min
Jun 12, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPalo Alto35 min
Jun 12, 9:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWright34 min
Jun 18, 6:02 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCerro Gordo28 min
Jun 18, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHancock33 min
Jun 18, 6:37 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHumboldt, Kossuth38 min
Jun 18, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHancock34 min
Jun 18, 7:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHumboldt18 min
Jun 19, 4:48 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHardin27 min
Jun 20, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth36 min
Jun 20, 5:33 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDWoodbury27 min
Jul 5, 8:37 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDWoodbury38 min
Jul 5, 8:42 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDWoodbury33 min
Jul 5, 9:18 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDWoodbury27 min
Jul 5, 9:47 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDWoodbury28 min
Jul 5, 10:16 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDWoodbury29 min
Jul 6, 2:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCerro Gordo, Floyd43 min
Jul 6, 4:47 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXFayette33 min
Jul 7, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXChickasaw, Fayette, Winneshiek29 min
Jul 8, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdair15 min
Jul 19, 6:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPalo Alto20 min
Jul 19, 6:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXKossuth31 min
Jul 19, 8:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXChickasaw30 min
Jul 19, 8:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHoward18 min
Jul 19, 8:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCerro Gordo28 min
Jul 19, 8:47 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHoward28 min
Jul 19, 10:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAllamakee37 min
Jul 20, 6:18 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDWoodbury12 min
Jul 31, 6:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMitchell27 min
Aug 8, 12:17 AM CDTTornado WarningFSDMonona28 min
Aug 17, 6:55 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMitchell20 min
Aug 17, 7:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHoward55 min
Oct 6, 7:28 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll32 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. July 6, 19947tornado warnings
  2. July 20, 19946tornado warnings
  3. June 18, 19944tornado warnings
  4. June 13, 19943tornado warnings
  5. April 15, 19942tornado warnings
  6. June 7, 19942tornado warnings
  7. June 19, 19942tornado warnings
  8. June 20, 19942tornado warnings
  9. July 8, 19942tornado warnings
  10. July 19, 19942tornado warnings
  11. May 4, 19941tornado warnings
  12. May 26, 19941tornado 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.