Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings / 2008

Tornado Warnings in Iowa, May 2008

49 tornado warnings in May 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
49
Busiest day
May 30, 200819 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon, Sioux36 min
May 1, 7:22 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon, Sioux23 min
May 1, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon, O'Brien, Osceola36 min
May 1, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon30 min
May 1, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon, O'Brien, Osceola29 min
May 6, 7:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXStory37 min
May 6, 9:51 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJones, Linn24 min
May 25, 4:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCerro Gordo, Franklin42 min
May 25, 4:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXButler, Franklin, Grundy, Hardin23 min
May 25, 4:26 PM CDTTornado WarningARXFloyd34 min
May 25, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXButler, Grundy44 min
May 25, 5:04 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer56 min
May 25, 5:21 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer24 min
May 25, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXButler14 min
May 25, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk38 min
May 25, 5:48 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBuchanan57 min
May 25, 6:10 PM CDTTornado WarningARXFayette35 min
May 25, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXClarke, Lucas48 min
May 25, 6:43 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBuchanan, Delaware62 min
May 25, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXLucas36 min
May 25, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDelaware, Dubuque59 min
May 25, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGuthrie46 min
May 25, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDubuque, Jackson20 min
May 25, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGrundy, Hardin, Marshall, Story44 min
May 25, 8:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPage36 min
May 25, 10:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPoweshiek23 min
May 25, 11:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNKeokuk40 min
May 25, 11:06 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNIowa39 min
May 25, 11:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLinn25 min
May 25, 11:24 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJones36 min
May 29, 7:13 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMonona32 min
May 29, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMonona29 min
May 29, 8:03 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Shelby27 min
May 29, 8:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCrawford31 min
May 29, 8:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Carroll34 min
May 29, 9:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll27 min
May 29, 9:23 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGreene31 min
May 29, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWebster30 min
May 29, 9:51 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWright27 min
May 29, 10:55 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDallas35 min
May 29, 11:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAudubon, Guthrie34 min
May 30, 12:27 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Marshall33 min
May 30, 12:29 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Page31 min
May 30, 12:41 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXTama34 min
May 30, 12:46 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXDallas31 min
May 30, 12:59 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXMontgomery20 min
May 30, 4:05 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXClarke, Union40 min
May 30, 4:40 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXClarke, Lucas, Warren19 min
May 30, 5:18 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXMahaska, Marion42 min

By county

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

7 more counties

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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.