Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings / 1998

Tornado Warnings in Iowa, May 1998

62 tornado warnings in May 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
62
Busiest day
May 29, 199820 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 6:36 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLinn64 min
May 15, 10:03 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXShelby47 min
May 15, 10:11 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXCrawford34 min
May 15, 12:27 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie, Shelby33 min
May 15, 1:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun36 min
May 15, 1:38 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXKossuth32 min
May 15, 2:38 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXKossuth22 min
May 15, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWright33 min
May 15, 4:13 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWapello32 min
May 15, 4:24 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Pocahontas36 min
May 15, 4:24 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDSioux31 min
May 15, 4:34 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNKeokuk36 min
May 15, 4:48 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJefferson37 min
May 15, 5:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNWashington47 min
May 15, 5:28 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJohnson47 min
May 15, 5:39 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar51 min
May 15, 5:43 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNMuscatine32 min
May 15, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJones48 min
May 15, 6:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJackson51 min
May 15, 6:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar21 min
May 15, 7:07 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDubuque38 min
May 19, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPolk34 min
May 19, 4:23 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper32 min
May 19, 4:34 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMarion, Polk36 min
May 19, 4:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMarion32 min
May 21, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Monona50 min
May 21, 8:47 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie33 min
May 28, 3:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPocahontas36 min
May 28, 3:28 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBuena Vista37 min
May 28, 3:28 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBuena Vista17 min
May 28, 3:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPocahontas31 min
May 28, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWright21 min
May 28, 5:50 PM CDTTornado WarningARXAllamakee, Winneshiek60 min
May 28, 6:37 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBuchanan, Delaware48 min
May 28, 7:04 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLinn51 min
May 28, 7:12 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCherokee33 min
May 28, 7:20 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth, Woodbury30 min
May 28, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth, Woodbury33 min
May 28, 8:26 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDWoodbury34 min
May 28, 8:40 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMonona60 min
May 28, 9:04 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDWoodbury31 min
May 28, 9:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCrawford33 min
May 28, 9:40 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMonona45 min
May 28, 9:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCrawford33 min
May 28, 10:18 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison62 min
May 28, 10:21 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll, Crawford39 min
May 28, 10:21 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll, Crawford34 min
May 28, 10:54 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXShelby61 min
May 28, 11:04 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll36 min
May 28, 11:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAudubon35 min
May 28, 11:25 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGreene, Guthrie35 min
May 28, 11:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAudubon, Guthrie36 min
May 28, 11:59 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDallas, Guthrie51 min
May 29, 12:24 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXGuthrie26 min
May 30, 12:46 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Greene34 min
May 30, 1:25 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone35 min
May 30, 1:50 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone50 min
May 30, 2:20 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMarshall50 min
May 30, 3:08 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMarshall22 min
May 30, 3:08 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMarshall17 min
May 31, 1:36 AM CDTTornado WarningARXClayton, Fayette34 min
May 31, 1:45 AM CDTTornado WarningDVNDelaware50 min

By county

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

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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.