Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings / 2008
Tornado Warnings in Iowa, April 2008
19 tornado warnings in April 2008. 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 April 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 19
- Busiest day
- April 10, 200810 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 10, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Clarke, Decatur, Lucas, Wayne | 51 min |
| Apr 10, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Clarke, Lucas, Warren | 26 min |
| Apr 10, 4:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Wayne | 23 min |
| Apr 10, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Mahaska, Marion, Monroe, Wapello | 34 min |
| Apr 10, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Marion | 20 min |
| Apr 10, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Poweshiek | 48 min |
| Apr 10, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Van Buren and 1 more | 40 min |
| Apr 10, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Poweshiek, Tama | 48 min |
| Apr 10, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Iowa, Johnson, Keokuk, Washington | 37 min |
| Apr 10, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Des Moines | 30 min |
| Apr 10, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Benton, Iowa | 41 min |
| Apr 10, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Benton, Iowa, Johnson, Keokuk, Linn, Washington | 45 min |
| Apr 24, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Franklin, Hamilton, Hardin, Wright | 40 min |
| Apr 25, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Henry, Jefferson, Louisa, Washington | 39 min |
| Apr 25, 3:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Cedar, Johnson, Louisa, Muscatine, Washington | 44 min |
| Apr 25, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Louisa, Muscatine | 65 min |
| Apr 25, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Muscatine, Scott | 41 min |
| Apr 25, 4:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Clinton, Jackson | 38 min |
| Apr 25, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Muscatine, Scott | 41 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Washington County5
- Louisa County4
- Muscatine County4
- Mahaska County3
- Iowa County3
- Johnson County3
- Clarke County2
- Lucas County2
- Wayne County2
- Appanoose County2
- Marion County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Keokuk County2
- Benton County2
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Scott County2
- Decatur County1
- Warren County1
- Monroe County1
- Wapello County1
- Lee County1
- Van Buren County1
- Tama County1
- Linn County1
- Franklin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Wright County1
- Jackson 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.