Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings / 2019

Tornado Warnings in Iowa, May 2019

38 tornado warnings in May 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
38
Busiest day
May 30, 201916 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 21, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont11 min
May 22, 12:02 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXMontgomery, Page15 min
May 24, 5:01 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Montgomery, Page29 min
May 24, 6:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNIowa, Johnson, Keokuk, Washington42 min
May 24, 6:52 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNCedar, Johnson, Muscatine53 min
May 24, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDubuque27 min
May 24, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningARXAllamakee45 min
May 27, 12:32 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedARXFloyd, Howard, Mitchell43 min
May 27, 1:00 PM CDTTornado WarningARXHoward45 min
May 27, 1:07 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedARXChickasaw, Floyd, Howard38 min
May 27, 1:08 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry, Lee, Van Buren52 min
May 27, 1:17 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry, Lee, Van Buren58 min
May 27, 1:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDes Moines, Lee40 min
May 27, 1:40 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatARXHoward50 min
May 27, 2:04 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNDes Moines, Lee41 min
May 27, 2:20 PM CDTTornado WarningARXWinneshiek23 min
May 29, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPocahontas14 min
May 29, 4:59 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPocahontas16 min
May 29, 5:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPocahontas31 min
May 29, 5:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPoweshiek25 min
May 29, 6:20 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBenton, Iowa40 min
May 29, 6:24 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXHumboldt, Pocahontas21 min
May 29, 7:06 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXPoweshiek24 min
May 29, 7:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBenton, Iowa, Johnson, Linn49 min
May 29, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNIowa42 min
May 29, 7:28 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPoweshiek17 min
May 29, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWright30 min
May 29, 7:48 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXHardin27 min
May 29, 7:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGrundy, Hardin, Marshall37 min
May 29, 7:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNIowa, Johnson, Linn52 min
May 29, 8:02 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCerro Gordo, Franklin, Hancock, Wright28 min
May 29, 8:04 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNIowa22 min
May 29, 8:08 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNIowa, Johnson, Washington52 min
May 29, 8:20 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGrundy, Hardin40 min
May 29, 8:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHardin16 min
May 29, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJohnson, Linn32 min
May 29, 8:42 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXFranklin, Grundy, Hardin48 min
May 29, 9:13 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXButler, Franklin32 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.