Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings / 2014
Tornado Warnings in Iowa, May 2014
18 tornado warnings in May 2014. 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 18
- Busiest day
- May 11, 20148 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 8, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Carroll, Greene | 33 min |
| May 8, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Guthrie | 35 min |
| May 11, 11:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Clarke, Lucas | 33 min |
| May 11, 1:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Lucas, Monroe, Wayne | 36 min |
| May 11, 1:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Monroe | 31 min |
| May 11, 1:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Wapello | 46 min |
| May 11, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Jefferson, Keokuk | 35 min |
| May 11, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Henry, Jefferson, Washington | 28 min |
| May 11, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Wapello | 44 min |
| May 11, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Lee | 34 min |
| May 11, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Sioux | 31 min |
| May 11, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | O'Brien, Sioux | 33 min |
| May 11, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | O'Brien, Sioux | 35 min |
| May 11, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Dallas, Guthrie | 30 min |
| May 11, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Boone, Dallas, Greene, Guthrie | 46 min |
| May 11, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Dallas, Polk, Story | 34 min |
| May 11, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Montgomery | 33 min |
| May 11, 10:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Boone, Hamilton, Story | 28 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Guthrie County3
- Sioux County3
- Dallas County3
- Greene County2
- Lucas County2
- Monroe County2
- Mahaska County2
- Wapello County2
- Jefferson County2
- O'Brien County2
- Boone County2
- Story County2
- Carroll County1
- Clarke County1
- Wayne County1
- Keokuk County1
- Henry County1
- Washington County1
- Lee County1
- Polk County1
- Montgomery County1
- Hamilton 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.