Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings / 2018

Tornado Warnings in Iowa, September 2018

15 tornado warnings in September 2018. 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 September 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
15
Busiest day
September 25, 20185 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
Sep 1, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNKeokuk23 min
Sep 2, 3:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDelaware, Dubuque22 min
Sep 3, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Linn34 min
Sep 3, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBuchanan, Delaware, Jones, Linn45 min
Sep 3, 6:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDelaware, Dubuque, Jones, Linn40 min
Sep 3, 6:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPoweshiek32 min
Sep 4, 3:46 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXKossuth29 min
Sep 4, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHancock, Winnebago30 min
Sep 5, 2:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLee22 min
Sep 20, 4:17 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth, Woodbury28 min
Sep 25, 1:19 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry, Louisa, Washington41 min
Sep 25, 1:28 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJones, Linn47 min
Sep 25, 1:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLouisa, Muscatine41 min
Sep 25, 1:51 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar, Jones24 min
Sep 25, 2:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry, Louisa, Washington27 min

By county

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

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.