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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 2006

55 tornado warnings in 2006. 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 2006. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
55
Busiest month
April29 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 2, 200612 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 12, 8:21 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXDavis24 min
Mar 12, 8:32 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNVan Buren43 min
Mar 12, 9:08 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNLee52 min
Mar 12, 9:35 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNDes Moines, Lee31 min
Mar 30, 4:05 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie25 min
Mar 30, 4:08 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXHarrison37 min
Mar 30, 4:34 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXShelby20 min
Mar 30, 4:53 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXMontgomery17 min
Mar 30, 5:38 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXPolk37 min
Mar 30, 6:00 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXUnion30 min
Mar 30, 8:02 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXRinggold28 min
Mar 30, 8:23 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXDecatur37 min
Mar 30, 8:50 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXClarke25 min
Mar 30, 8:50 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXClarke25 min
Mar 30, 9:05 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXLucas25 min
Apr 2, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXClarke, Warren35 min
Apr 2, 3:16 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWarren27 min
Apr 2, 3:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDavis38 min
Apr 2, 3:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDavis18 min
Apr 2, 4:01 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMahaska, Marion44 min
Apr 2, 4:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry, Van Buren46 min
Apr 2, 4:38 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWarren37 min
Apr 2, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLouisa, Washington46 min
Apr 2, 4:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPolk23 min
Apr 2, 5:08 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar, Johnson, Muscatine46 min
Apr 2, 5:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Polk34 min
Apr 2, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper34 min
Apr 13, 6:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXTama31 min
Apr 13, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLinn51 min
Apr 13, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBenton45 min
Apr 13, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJones65 min
Apr 13, 7:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJohnson62 min
Apr 13, 8:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar57 min
Apr 13, 8:23 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNMuscatine67 min
Apr 13, 8:47 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJohnson58 min
Apr 13, 8:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNScott64 min
Apr 13, 9:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar49 min
Apr 13, 9:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNMuscatine39 min
Apr 15, 6:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont23 min
Apr 15, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont20 min
Apr 15, 8:04 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXShelby26 min
Apr 15, 8:07 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAudubon23 min
Apr 15, 9:06 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll22 min
Apr 15, 10:06 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAppanoose39 min
May 9, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJohnson37 min
May 9, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar64 min
Jun 6, 2:46 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLinn44 min
Jun 6, 2:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar, Johnson63 min
Jun 6, 3:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNKeokuk, Washington52 min
Jun 6, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDavis50 min
Jul 17, 5:02 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXTama28 min
Aug 10, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Hamilton, Webster45 min
Sep 2, 2:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXFranklin41 min
Sep 16, 8:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCrawford36 min
Sep 16, 9:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPocahontas30 min

By county

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

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 2, 200612tornado warnings
  2. April 14, 200610tornado warnings
  3. March 31, 20066tornado warnings
  4. March 30, 20065tornado warnings
  5. March 13, 20064tornado warnings
  6. April 16, 20064tornado warnings
  7. June 6, 20064tornado warnings
  8. April 15, 20062tornado warnings
  9. May 10, 20062tornado warnings
  10. September 17, 20062tornado warnings
  11. April 13, 20061tornado warnings
  12. July 17, 20061tornado 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.