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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 1996

37 tornado warnings in 1996. 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 1996. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
37
Busiest month
May12 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 9, 19967 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 19, 5:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDes Moines25 min
Apr 19, 5:50 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLouisa40 min
Apr 19, 7:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJackson41 min
Apr 19, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNClinton40 min
May 8, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills, Montgomery38 min
May 8, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills, Montgomery53 min
May 8, 10:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXUnion31 min
May 8, 11:05 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Page40 min
May 9, 12:01 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXPage29 min
May 9, 6:17 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXDecatur33 min
May 9, 6:35 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXWayne30 min
May 9, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry, Louisa59 min
May 10, 2:21 AM CDTTornado WarningDVNClinton, Scott54 min
May 22, 10:08 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont52 min
May 27, 2:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXRinggold32 min
May 27, 3:01 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDecatur29 min
Jun 16, 4:02 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBremer13 min
Jun 16, 4:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXChickasaw33 min
Jun 16, 6:23 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXFayette37 min
Jun 16, 6:39 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNClayton66 min
Jun 16, 7:42 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDubuque63 min
Jun 19, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDOsceola33 min
Jun 20, 5:11 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMonona19 min
Jun 20, 9:43 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison47 min
Jun 20, 9:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont35 min
Jun 23, 4:12 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Mills48 min
Jul 23, 3:33 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Pottawattamie, Shelby27 min
Jul 23, 3:53 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie37 min
Jul 27, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDWoodbury31 min
Jul 29, 4:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGreene43 min
Aug 10, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDickinson32 min
Aug 19, 4:24 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLinn51 min
Aug 19, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJones45 min
Oct 29, 2:33 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNJohnson, Washington42 min
Oct 29, 3:02 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNJones43 min
Oct 29, 3:03 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNCedar42 min
Oct 29, 3:26 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNClinton, Scott49 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. May 9, 19967tornado warnings
  2. June 16, 19964tornado warnings
  3. October 29, 19964tornado warnings
  4. April 19, 19962tornado warnings
  5. April 20, 19962tornado warnings
  6. May 10, 19962tornado warnings
  7. May 27, 19962tornado warnings
  8. June 21, 19962tornado warnings
  9. July 23, 19962tornado warnings
  10. August 19, 19962tornado warnings
  11. May 23, 19961tornado warnings
  12. June 17, 19961tornado 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.