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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 2000

78 tornado warnings in 2000. 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 2000. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
78
Busiest month
May26 tornado warnings
Busiest day
July 26, 200013 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
May 11, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXButler17 min
May 11, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk29 min
May 11, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk29 min
May 11, 7:31 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBuchanan29 min
May 11, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk31 min
May 11, 7:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBuchanan32 min
May 11, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk32 min
May 11, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WarningARXClayton35 min
May 11, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBuchanan45 min
May 11, 9:06 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDelaware39 min
May 18, 10:34 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdair, Cass21 min
May 18, 11:00 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXAudubon, Cass30 min
May 18, 11:51 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXPolk, Warren29 min
May 18, 12:07 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Marion28 min
May 18, 12:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNWashington25 min
May 18, 1:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNMuscatine28 min
May 18, 2:21 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNIowa24 min
May 30, 7:31 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone14 min
May 30, 7:48 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDallas27 min
May 30, 8:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPolk25 min
May 30, 8:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPolk32 min
May 30, 9:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHamilton, Hardin27 min
May 30, 9:28 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPolk32 min
May 30, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Polk45 min
May 31, 11:24 AM CDTTornado WarningDVNJones, Linn36 min
May 31, 11:48 AM CDTTornado WarningDVNJones27 min
Jun 1, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWapello35 min
Jun 13, 2:02 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie43 min
Jun 13, 3:17 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills28 min
Jun 13, 3:20 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Shelby40 min
Jun 13, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont45 min
Jun 13, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills30 min
Jun 13, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie34 min
Jun 13, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Page34 min
Jun 13, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMontgomery23 min
Jun 13, 5:08 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMontgomery37 min
Jun 13, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMarshall33 min
Jun 15, 7:49 PM CDTTornado WarningARXChickasaw, Floyd41 min
Jun 15, 8:32 PM CDTTornado WarningARXChickasaw, Fayette73 min
Jun 23, 2:19 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWayne26 min
Jun 23, 4:52 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont23 min
Jun 23, 8:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXTaylor28 min
Jul 2, 4:05 PM CDTTornado WarningARXAllamakee, Winneshiek55 min
Jul 2, 4:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPocahontas36 min
Jul 2, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee45 min
Jul 9, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon, Sioux34 min
Jul 9, 9:39 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDO'Brien, Osceola36 min
Jul 9, 10:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDO'Brien, Osceola31 min
Jul 11, 8:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDOsceola24 min
Jul 11, 8:52 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth23 min
Jul 25, 8:39 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDOsceola51 min
Jul 25, 10:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDickinson35 min
Jul 25, 10:17 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon, Sioux43 min
Jul 25, 10:28 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay47 min
Jul 26, 3:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGuthrie27 min
Jul 26, 3:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone34 min
Jul 26, 3:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXStory23 min
Jul 26, 3:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGuthrie38 min
Jul 26, 4:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGuthrie46 min
Jul 26, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie, Shelby34 min
Jul 26, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie32 min
Jul 26, 6:28 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie47 min
Jul 26, 6:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCass27 min
Jul 26, 7:02 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills28 min
Jul 26, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills28 min
Aug 1, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WarningARXWinneshiek64 min
Aug 5, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison50 min
Aug 5, 7:31 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Shelby29 min
Aug 5, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXShelby33 min
Aug 5, 8:34 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie31 min
Sep 11, 5:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDubuque25 min
Sep 13, 8:07 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay23 min
Sep 13, 8:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPalo Alto, Pocahontas25 min
Sep 13, 8:40 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHumboldt, Kossuth20 min
Oct 13, 6:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPalo Alto, Pocahontas26 min
Nov 1, 3:03 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXPoweshiek32 min
Nov 1, 3:19 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXTama16 min
Nov 1, 3:59 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan71 min

By county

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

16 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. July 26, 200013tornado warnings
  2. June 13, 200010tornado warnings
  3. May 31, 20009tornado warnings
  4. May 12, 20008tornado warnings
  5. May 18, 20007tornado warnings
  6. July 2, 20003tornado warnings
  7. July 10, 20003tornado warnings
  8. August 6, 20003tornado warnings
  9. September 14, 20003tornado warnings
  10. November 1, 20003tornado warnings
  11. May 11, 20002tornado warnings
  12. June 16, 20002tornado 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.