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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 2013

59 tornado warnings in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
59
Busiest month
June26 tornado warnings
Busiest day
June 12, 201315 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
May 19, 3:03 PM CDTTornado WarningARXFloyd, Mitchell42 min
May 19, 3:36 PM CDTTornado WarningARXChickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell39 min
May 19, 4:16 PM CDTTornado WarningARXHoward44 min
May 19, 5:16 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLee29 min
May 19, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Pocahontas, Webster45 min
May 19, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDallas, Guthrie, Madison33 min
May 19, 6:49 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXPolk, Story26 min
May 19, 7:14 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXJasper, Marshall, Polk, Story46 min
May 19, 8:37 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAppanoose, Wayne23 min
May 20, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPolk, Story35 min
May 20, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHardin, Marshall, Story36 min
May 20, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Marshall, Polk, Story36 min
May 26, 7:04 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXRinggold, Taylor26 min
May 26, 7:25 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXRinggold50 min
May 26, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXRinggold, Taylor64 min
May 29, 7:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDelaware40 min
May 30, 2:16 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDubuque29 min
May 30, 4:15 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNMuscatine30 min
May 31, 6:26 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedARXHoward, Mitchell34 min
Jun 12, 4:05 PM CDTTornado WarningARXClayton25 min
Jun 12, 4:16 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCerro Gordo, Franklin, Hancock, Wright29 min
Jun 12, 4:25 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBremer, Butler35 min
Jun 12, 4:29 PM CDTTornado WarningARXClayton46 min
Jun 12, 4:39 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXFranklin36 min
Jun 12, 4:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk26 min
Jun 12, 4:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer, Butler36 min
Jun 12, 5:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXButler, Franklin31 min
Jun 12, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDubuque36 min
Jun 12, 5:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer31 min
Jun 12, 5:34 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCerro Gordo, Franklin41 min
Jun 12, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer, Butler31 min
Jun 12, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXButler, Franklin41 min
Jun 12, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJackson30 min
Jun 12, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer, Butler35 min
Jun 12, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer35 min
Jun 12, 7:51 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBremer24 min
Jun 12, 8:07 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDubuque, Jackson23 min
Jun 24, 1:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMahaska, Poweshiek30 min
Jun 24, 1:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNIowa, Keokuk27 min
Jun 24, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNIowa, Johnson, Linn25 min
Jun 24, 2:42 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry, Louisa, Washington33 min
Jun 24, 2:52 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNCedar, Johnson, Jones, Linn23 min
Jun 24, 3:14 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNCedar, Clinton, Jackson, Jones46 min
Jun 24, 3:20 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNMuscatine, Scott25 min
Jun 24, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNClinton, Scott40 min
Oct 4, 6:04 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOAXMonona41 min
Oct 4, 6:07 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDWoodbury38 min
Oct 4, 6:11 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFSDPlymouth49 min
Oct 4, 6:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCherokee, Ida, Plymouth, Woodbury47 min
Oct 4, 6:55 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFSDPlymouth, Sioux50 min
Oct 4, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth18 min
Oct 4, 7:22 PM CDTTornado Warning EmergencyFSDCherokee38 min
Oct 4, 7:25 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFSDPlymouth35 min
Oct 4, 7:42 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOAXMills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie33 min
Oct 4, 7:54 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee36 min
Oct 4, 8:27 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBuena Vista, Clay33 min
Oct 4, 8:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXEmmet, Palo Alto38 min
Oct 4, 8:55 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay20 min
Oct 4, 9:50 PM CDTTornado WarningARXHoward, Winneshiek25 min

By county

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

20 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. June 12, 201315tornado warnings
  2. June 24, 20138tornado warnings
  3. October 5, 20138tornado warnings
  4. May 19, 20137tornado warnings
  5. October 4, 20136tornado warnings
  6. May 21, 20133tornado warnings
  7. May 27, 20133tornado warnings
  8. May 30, 20133tornado warnings
  9. June 13, 20133tornado warnings
  10. May 20, 20132tornado warnings
  11. May 31, 20131tornado 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.