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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 2022

79 tornado warnings in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
79
Busiest month
April27 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 13, 202219 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
Mar 5, 3:10 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXMontgomery, Pottawattamie20 min
Mar 5, 3:15 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXMontgomery30 min
Mar 5, 3:22 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXAudubon, Cass12 min
Mar 5, 3:24 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXMontgomery, Page20 min
Mar 5, 3:26 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXAdams, Taylor49 min
Mar 5, 3:36 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Taylor, Union39 min
Mar 5, 4:11 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXAdair, Madison, Union35 min
Mar 5, 4:34 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXDallas, Madison, Polk, Warren41 min
Mar 5, 5:03 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXDecatur, Lucas, Wayne27 min
Mar 5, 5:05 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDMXJasper, Polk, Warren40 min
Mar 5, 5:16 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXDecatur, Wayne29 min
Mar 5, 5:23 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDMXClarke, Decatur, Lucas, Wayne37 min
Mar 5, 5:35 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDMXJasper, Marshall40 min
Mar 5, 5:36 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXAppanoose, Lucas, Wayne24 min
Mar 5, 5:52 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDMXLucas, Marion, Monroe23 min
Mar 5, 5:53 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXAppanoose, Monroe, Wayne37 min
Mar 5, 6:03 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXJasper, Marshall, Poweshiek, Tama57 min
Mar 5, 6:11 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXMahaska, Marion, Monroe19 min
Mar 5, 6:15 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXMahaska, Monroe, Wapello30 min
Mar 5, 6:40 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXMahaska, Wapello35 min
Mar 5, 6:47 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNJefferson, Keokuk43 min
Mar 5, 6:48 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNBenton42 min
Mar 5, 7:20 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Linn40 min
Mar 5, 7:42 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNBuchanan, Delaware26 min
Mar 5, 8:35 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNClinton, Muscatine, Scott25 min
Mar 5, 8:52 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNClinton, Scott38 min
Apr 12, 5:59 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Humboldt, Pocahontas31 min
Apr 12, 6:23 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDMXHumboldt, Kossuth, Pocahontas52 min
Apr 12, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPocahontas27 min
Apr 12, 6:54 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDMXHancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Wright51 min
Apr 12, 7:38 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXCerro Gordo, Hancock, Wright37 min
Apr 12, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Pottawattamie10 min
Apr 12, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Pottawattamie18 min
Apr 12, 8:06 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCerro Gordo, Hancock, Worth54 min
Apr 12, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Shelby15 min
Apr 12, 8:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCrawford33 min
Apr 12, 8:28 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOAXHarrison, Shelby17 min
Apr 12, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCerro Gordo, Hancock, Wright29 min
Apr 12, 8:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills, Pottawattamie23 min
Apr 12, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WarningARXFloyd44 min
Apr 12, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXShelby14 min
Apr 12, 8:47 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXSac28 min
Apr 12, 8:51 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCerro Gordo, Worth24 min
Apr 12, 9:06 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll, Crawford24 min
Apr 12, 9:08 PM CDTTornado WarningARXMitchell37 min
Apr 12, 9:25 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Carroll, Greene17 min
Apr 12, 10:37 PM CDTTornado WarningARXHoward, Mitchell23 min
Apr 12, 11:07 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedARXHoward, Mitchell23 min
Apr 12, 11:27 PM CDTTornado WarningARXHoward, Winneshiek17 min
Apr 23, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMontgomery13 min
Apr 23, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPolk23 min
Apr 23, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Wright23 min
Apr 23, 6:34 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Story26 min
May 11, 5:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDickinson, Osceola26 min
May 12, 6:36 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMonona24 min
May 25, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDes Moines18 min
May 25, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry15 min
May 25, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDes Moines, Louisa35 min
May 25, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry, Louisa, Washington17 min
May 25, 7:20 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar, Johnson, Louisa, Muscatine25 min
May 29, 4:23 AM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon37 min
May 30, 1:58 AM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon32 min
May 30, 2:20 AM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon, Osceola40 min
May 30, 2:22 AM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux23 min
Jun 7, 7:28 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXAdair, Adams, Cass, Madison, Union32 min
Jun 11, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBuchanan23 min
Jun 15, 12:11 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills, Montgomery17 min
Jun 15, 12:22 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills, Pottawattamie21 min
Jun 15, 5:07 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBuchanan, Delaware18 min
Jun 15, 5:17 PM CDTTornado WarningARXClayton20 min
Jul 4, 8:32 PM CDTTornado WarningARXFayette23 min
Jul 5, 8:42 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBuchanan48 min
Aug 20, 12:07 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJones38 min
Aug 20, 12:24 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNClinton, Scott21 min
Aug 20, 3:07 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNClinton, Jones23 min
Aug 28, 1:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJackson34 min
Sep 17, 7:25 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMontgomery, Page50 min
Sep 18, 7:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDavis29 min
Sep 18, 7:19 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNVan Buren41 min

By county

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

34 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 13, 202219tornado warnings
  2. March 5, 202216tornado warnings
  3. March 6, 202210tornado warnings
  4. April 12, 20224tornado warnings
  5. April 23, 20224tornado warnings
  6. May 25, 20224tornado warnings
  7. June 15, 20224tornado warnings
  8. May 30, 20223tornado warnings
  9. August 20, 20223tornado warnings
  10. September 19, 20222tornado warnings
  11. May 11, 20221tornado warnings
  12. May 12, 20221tornado 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.