Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings / 1996

Tornado Warnings in Iowa, May 1996

12 tornado warnings in May 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 May 1996. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 12
Busiest day: May 9, 19967 tornado warnings

Over time

By day

Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 9:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Mills, Montgomery	38 min
May 8, 9:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Mills, Montgomery	53 min
May 8, 10:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Union	31 min
May 8, 11:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Fremont, Page	40 min
May 9, 12:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Page	29 min
May 9, 6:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Decatur	33 min
May 9, 6:35 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Wayne	30 min
May 9, 7:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Henry, Louisa	59 min
May 10, 2:21 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Clinton, Scott	54 min
May 22, 10:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Fremont	52 min
May 27, 2:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Ringgold	32 min
May 27, 3:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Decatur	29 min

By county

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

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 1995 1997

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.