Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings / 2004
Tornado Warnings in Iowa, September 2004
22 tornado warnings in September 2004. 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 September 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 22
- Busiest day
- September 5, 200413 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Ida, Plymouth, Woodbury | 28 min |
| Sep 5, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lyon, Osceola | 45 min |
| Sep 5, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Crawford | 43 min |
| Sep 5, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cherokee, O'Brien | 46 min |
| Sep 5, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Clay, Dickinson, O'Brien, Osceola | 27 min |
| Sep 5, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Dickinson | 33 min |
| Sep 5, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Greene | 26 min |
| Sep 5, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Boone, Story | 33 min |
| Sep 5, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Greene, Webster | 27 min |
| Sep 5, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Madison | 38 min |
| Sep 5, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Union | 29 min |
| Sep 5, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Hamilton, Webster | 25 min |
| Sep 5, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Story | 32 min |
| Sep 5, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Hamilton, Wright | 30 min |
| Sep 5, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Madison | 29 min |
| Sep 5, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Hardin, Story | 47 min |
| Sep 5, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Warren | 36 min |
| Sep 5, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Polk | 49 min |
| Sep 5, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Story | 43 min |
| Sep 5, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Lucas, Warren | 31 min |
| Sep 5, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Jasper, Polk | 27 min |
| Sep 5, 9:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Marshall, Story | 42 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Story County5
- Cherokee County2
- Osceola County2
- O'Brien County2
- Dickinson County2
- Greene County2
- Webster County2
- Madison County2
- Hamilton County2
- Warren County2
- Polk County2
- Ida County1
- Plymouth County1
- Woodbury County1
- Lyon County1
- Crawford County1
- Clay County1
- Boone County1
- Union County1
- Wright County1
- Hardin County1
- Lucas County1
- Jasper County1
- Marshall 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.