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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 1995

75 tornado warnings in 1995. 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 1995. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
75
Busiest month
May43 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 28, 199526 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 26, 7:02 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXMarion, Warren33 min
May 8, 8:52 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont53 min
May 8, 9:23 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont52 min
May 8, 11:44 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Mills31 min
May 9, 1:37 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll22 min
May 9, 2:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXStory31 min
May 9, 2:50 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPocahontas30 min
May 9, 3:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLouisa, Muscatine42 min
May 9, 3:51 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar, Muscatine54 min
May 9, 3:51 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLouisa54 min
May 9, 4:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNScott42 min
May 9, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNMuscatine15 min
May 9, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNClinton, Scott51 min
May 9, 5:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJones, Linn46 min
May 9, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNClinton47 min
May 13, 3:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLee62 min
May 13, 4:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDes Moines51 min
May 27, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDWoodbury45 min
May 27, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth14 min
May 27, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll, Sac22 min
May 27, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Sac34 min
May 27, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdair, Union33 min
May 27, 8:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCass32 min
May 27, 8:07 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCrawford18 min
May 27, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Sac32 min
May 27, 8:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll32 min
May 27, 8:20 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGreene, Guthrie35 min
May 27, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdair35 min
May 27, 8:47 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPocahontas33 min
May 27, 8:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGuthrie36 min
May 27, 8:51 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll34 min
May 27, 8:59 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDallas31 min
May 27, 9:02 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Sac16 min
May 27, 9:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGreene35 min
May 27, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGreene29 min
May 27, 9:20 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Webster25 min
May 27, 9:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdams, Union28 min
May 27, 9:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWebster31 min
May 27, 10:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDecatur, Ringgold34 min
May 27, 10:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDallas34 min
May 27, 10:31 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDecatur29 min
May 27, 10:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDecatur15 min
May 27, 10:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXClarke34 min
May 27, 11:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone35 min
Jun 5, 3:36 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGreene28 min
Jun 5, 3:36 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDallas13 min
Jun 5, 4:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Hamilton14 min
Jun 6, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWorth35 min
Jun 6, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCerro Gordo32 min
Jun 6, 7:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXFranklin32 min
Jun 6, 8:04 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXFranklin31 min
Jul 5, 1:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXChickasaw15 min
Jul 5, 2:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXChickasaw, Winneshiek15 min
Jul 8, 9:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWright32 min
Jul 8, 10:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHamilton31 min
Jul 19, 3:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGrundy27 min
Jul 19, 3:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXTama23 min
Jul 19, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDickinson35 min
Jul 19, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar61 min
Jul 23, 6:34 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth23 min
Jul 27, 3:46 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBuchanan, Delaware59 min
Jul 27, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDelaware61 min
Jul 27, 5:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDubuque, Jones63 min
Jul 27, 5:17 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJackson58 min
Jul 27, 5:19 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNScott56 min
Jul 27, 6:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBuchanan55 min
Jul 27, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar, Jones60 min
Jul 27, 6:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNScott57 min
Jul 27, 6:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLinn61 min
Jul 27, 7:07 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar, Jones68 min
Jul 27, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNScott63 min
Jul 27, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNMuscatine59 min
Aug 9, 6:55 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNScott35 min
Aug 13, 9:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXEmmet16 min
Aug 13, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXKossuth23 min

By county

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

9 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 28, 199526tornado warnings
  2. May 9, 199514tornado warnings
  3. July 27, 19959tornado warnings
  4. July 19, 19954tornado warnings
  5. June 5, 19953tornado warnings
  6. June 7, 19953tornado warnings
  7. July 28, 19953tornado warnings
  8. May 13, 19952tornado warnings
  9. July 5, 19952tornado warnings
  10. July 9, 19952tornado warnings
  11. August 14, 19952tornado warnings
  12. March 27, 19951tornado 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.