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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 2005

51 tornado warnings in 2005. 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 2005. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
51
Busiest month
June23 tornado warnings
Busiest day
November 12, 200512 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
Mar 30, 12:13 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXWebster32 min
Mar 30, 12:43 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXHamilton, Webster32 min
Mar 30, 12:55 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXWright35 min
Mar 30, 1:43 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXCerro Gordo32 min
Mar 30, 1:51 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXWorth39 min
Mar 30, 1:52 PM CSTTornado WarningARXMitchell23 min
Mar 30, 2:15 PM CSTTornado WarningARXMitchell30 min
May 10, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXShelby25 min
May 10, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAudubon66 min
May 10, 8:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGuthrie55 min
May 18, 7:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWebster31 min
May 18, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHamilton, Webster44 min
May 18, 8:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHamilton17 min
Jun 4, 6:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXRinggold57 min
Jun 4, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDecatur, Ringgold39 min
Jun 4, 7:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMarion46 min
Jun 4, 9:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJefferson, Van Buren46 min
Jun 4, 9:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth, Sioux29 min
Jun 4, 10:13 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNIowa, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk, Washington47 min
Jun 4, 10:24 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDSioux51 min
Jun 4, 11:01 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLinn40 min
Jun 8, 12:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry40 min
Jun 8, 12:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDes Moines, Louisa71 min
Jun 13, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDallas42 min
Jun 13, 6:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXRinggold, Taylor47 min
Jun 13, 7:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXClarke25 min
Jun 13, 8:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMarion48 min
Jun 13, 9:17 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJones24 min
Jun 13, 9:36 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMonroe39 min
Jun 13, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMahaska45 min
Jun 25, 11:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHamilton, Wright45 min
Jun 29, 7:37 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDickinson23 min
Jun 29, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay45 min
Jun 29, 7:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXEmmet37 min
Jun 29, 8:04 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDickinson26 min
Jun 29, 9:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPage30 min
Jul 24, 5:42 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWebster27 min
Jul 24, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCrawford45 min
Jul 25, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills25 min
Nov 12, 3:19 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXAudubon, Guthrie26 min
Nov 12, 3:43 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXGreene47 min
Nov 12, 3:58 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXDallas, Guthrie32 min
Nov 12, 4:30 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Hamilton, Webster30 min
Nov 12, 4:30 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Dallas30 min
Nov 12, 4:33 PM CSTTornado WarningFSDO'Brien, Sioux27 min
Nov 12, 4:55 PM CSTTornado WarningFSDClay20 min
Nov 12, 4:56 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXStory34 min
Nov 12, 4:57 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXFranklin, Hamilton, Hardin, Wright48 min
Nov 12, 5:06 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXHamilton24 min
Nov 12, 5:23 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXHardin22 min
Nov 12, 5:41 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXFranklin, Hardin34 min

By county

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

2 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. November 12, 200512tornado warnings
  2. March 30, 20057tornado warnings
  3. June 5, 20057tornado warnings
  4. June 14, 20055tornado warnings
  5. June 30, 20055tornado warnings
  6. May 11, 20053tornado warnings
  7. May 19, 20053tornado warnings
  8. June 8, 20052tornado warnings
  9. June 13, 20052tornado warnings
  10. July 24, 20052tornado warnings
  11. June 4, 20051tornado warnings
  12. June 26, 20051tornado 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.