Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings / 2003

Tornado Warnings in Iowa, May 2003

27 tornado warnings in May 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 27
Busiest day: May 10, 200316 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
Apr 30, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Washington	34 min
Apr 30, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Wapello	49 min
Apr 30, 7:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Wayne	51 min
Apr 30, 8:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Appanoose	40 min
May 4, 4:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Mills, Pottawattamie	54 min
May 4, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Fremont	45 min
May 10, 4:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Appanoose, Wayne	44 min
May 10, 5:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Marion	28 min
May 10, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Appanoose, Davis	46 min
May 10, 5:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Benton, Buchanan	26 min
May 10, 5:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Mahaska	32 min
May 10, 5:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Poweshiek	26 min
May 10, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Davis	47 min
May 10, 6:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Wapello	38 min
May 10, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Appanoose, Davis	33 min
May 10, 6:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Poweshiek	31 min
May 10, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Tama	23 min
May 10, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Jefferson	30 min
May 10, 6:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Lee	27 min
May 10, 6:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Davis	46 min
May 10, 6:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Van Buren	39 min
May 10, 6:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Bremer	36 min
May 10, 7:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Henry	35 min
May 10, 8:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Louisa	27 min
May 10, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Louisa	46 min
May 13, 7:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Calhoun, Carroll, Greene	63 min
May 14, 8:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Muscatine	37 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 2002 2004

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.