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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, May 2022

11 tornado warnings in May 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 May 2022. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 11
Busiest day: May 25, 20224 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 11, 5:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Dickinson, Osceola	26 min
May 12, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Monona	24 min
May 25, 6:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Des Moines	18 min
May 25, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Henry	15 min
May 25, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Des Moines, Louisa	35 min
May 25, 6:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Henry, Louisa, Washington	17 min
May 25, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Cedar, Johnson, Louisa, Muscatine	25 min
May 29, 4:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lyon	37 min
May 30, 1:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lyon	32 min
May 30, 2:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lyon, Osceola	40 min
May 30, 2:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux	23 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.