Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings / 2013
Tornado Warnings in Iowa, May 2013
19 tornado warnings in May 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 May 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 19
- Busiest day
- May 19, 20137 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 3:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Floyd, Mitchell | 42 min |
| May 19, 3:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell | 39 min |
| May 19, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Howard | 44 min |
| May 19, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Lee | 29 min |
| May 19, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Pocahontas, Webster | 45 min |
| May 19, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Dallas, Guthrie, Madison | 33 min |
| May 19, 6:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Polk, Story | 26 min |
| May 19, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Jasper, Marshall, Polk, Story | 46 min |
| May 19, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Wayne | 23 min |
| May 20, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Polk, Story | 35 min |
| May 20, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Hardin, Marshall, Story | 36 min |
| May 20, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Jasper, Marshall, Polk, Story | 36 min |
| May 26, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Ringgold, Taylor | 26 min |
| May 26, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Ringgold | 50 min |
| May 26, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Ringgold, Taylor | 64 min |
| May 29, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Delaware | 40 min |
| May 30, 2:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Dubuque | 29 min |
| May 30, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Muscatine | 30 min |
| May 31, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Howard, Mitchell | 34 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Story County5
- Polk County4
- Mitchell County3
- Howard County3
- Marshall County3
- Ringgold County3
- Floyd County2
- Jasper County2
- Taylor County2
- Chickasaw County1
- Lee County1
- Calhoun County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Webster County1
- Dallas County1
- Guthrie County1
- Madison County1
- Appanoose County1
- Wayne County1
- Hardin County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
- Muscatine 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. Rebuilt daily.