Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings / 2000
Tornado Warnings in Iowa, May 2000
26 tornado warnings in May 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 May 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 26
- Busiest day
- May 31, 20009 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 11, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Butler | 17 min |
| May 11, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Black Hawk | 29 min |
| May 11, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Black Hawk | 29 min |
| May 11, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Buchanan | 29 min |
| May 11, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Black Hawk | 31 min |
| May 11, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Buchanan | 32 min |
| May 11, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Black Hawk | 32 min |
| May 11, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Clayton | 35 min |
| May 11, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Buchanan | 45 min |
| May 11, 9:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Delaware | 39 min |
| May 18, 10:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Adair, Cass | 21 min |
| May 18, 11:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Audubon, Cass | 30 min |
| May 18, 11:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Polk, Warren | 29 min |
| May 18, 12:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Jasper, Marion | 28 min |
| May 18, 12:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Washington | 25 min |
| May 18, 1:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Muscatine | 28 min |
| May 18, 2:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Iowa | 24 min |
| May 30, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Boone | 14 min |
| May 30, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Dallas | 27 min |
| May 30, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Polk | 25 min |
| May 30, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Polk | 32 min |
| May 30, 9:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Hamilton, Hardin | 27 min |
| May 30, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Polk | 32 min |
| May 30, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Jasper, Polk | 45 min |
| May 31, 11:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Jones, Linn | 36 min |
| May 31, 11:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Jones | 27 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Polk County5
- Black Hawk County4
- Buchanan County3
- Cass County2
- Jasper County2
- Jones County2
- Butler County1
- Clayton County1
- Delaware County1
- Adair County1
- Audubon County1
- Warren County1
- Marion County1
- Washington County1
- Muscatine County1
- Iowa County1
- Boone County1
- Dallas County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Linn County1
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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.