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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, April 2022
27 tornado warnings in April 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 April 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 27
- Busiest day
- April 13, 202219 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Humboldt, Pocahontas | 31 min |
| Apr 12, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Humboldt, Kossuth, Pocahontas | 52 min |
| Apr 12, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Pocahontas | 27 min |
| Apr 12, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Wright | 51 min |
| Apr 12, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo, Hancock, Wright | 37 min |
| Apr 12, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Harrison, Pottawattamie | 10 min |
| Apr 12, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Harrison, Pottawattamie | 18 min |
| Apr 12, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo, Hancock, Worth | 54 min |
| Apr 12, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Harrison, Shelby | 15 min |
| Apr 12, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Crawford | 33 min |
| Apr 12, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Harrison, Shelby | 17 min |
| Apr 12, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo, Hancock, Wright | 29 min |
| Apr 12, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Mills, Pottawattamie | 23 min |
| Apr 12, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Floyd | 44 min |
| Apr 12, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Shelby | 14 min |
| Apr 12, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Sac | 28 min |
| Apr 12, 8:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo, Worth | 24 min |
| Apr 12, 9:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Carroll, Crawford | 24 min |
| Apr 12, 9:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Mitchell | 37 min |
| Apr 12, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Carroll, Greene | 17 min |
| Apr 12, 10:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Howard, Mitchell | 23 min |
| Apr 12, 11:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Howard, Mitchell | 23 min |
| Apr 12, 11:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Howard, Winneshiek | 17 min |
| Apr 23, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Montgomery | 13 min |
| Apr 23, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Polk | 23 min |
| Apr 23, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Wright | 23 min |
| Apr 23, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Boone, Story | 26 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hancock County5
- Humboldt County4
- Wright County4
- Cerro Gordo County4
- Harrison County4
- Pocahontas County3
- Kossuth County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Shelby County3
- Mitchell County3
- Howard County3
- Calhoun County2
- Worth County2
- Crawford County2
- Carroll County2
- Mills County1
- Floyd County1
- Sac County1
- Greene County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Montgomery County1
- Polk County1
- Boone County1
- Story 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.