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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, March 2023

31 tornado warnings in March 2023. 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 March 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
31
Busiest day
March 31, 202331 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
Mar 31, 12:40 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXClarke, Decatur, Ringgold, Union39 min
Mar 31, 3:02 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAppanoose, Davis, Monroe, Wapello43 min
Mar 31, 3:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJefferson, Keokuk, Washington40 min
Mar 31, 3:42 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXWapello18 min
Mar 31, 3:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXTama33 min
Mar 31, 3:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPoweshiek34 min
Mar 31, 4:02 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNBenton, Iowa43 min
Mar 31, 4:05 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDVNIowa, Johnson, Keokuk, Washington40 min
Mar 31, 4:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBenton33 min
Mar 31, 4:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Franklin, Grundy, Hardin34 min
Mar 31, 4:27 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDVNIowa, Johnson, Washington48 min
Mar 31, 4:28 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Grundy, Marshall, Tama34 min
Mar 31, 4:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Linn28 min
Mar 31, 4:34 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Grundy, Marshall, Tama29 min
Mar 31, 4:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJohnson, Louisa, Washington25 min
Mar 31, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Linn19 min
Mar 31, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry, Jefferson, Van Buren45 min
Mar 31, 4:51 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar, Johnson, Linn24 min
Mar 31, 4:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar, Johnson, Muscatine33 min
Mar 31, 5:10 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNCedar, Johnson, Jones, Linn35 min
Mar 31, 5:17 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar, Muscatine, Scott28 min
Mar 31, 5:21 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNCedar, Clinton, Jackson, Jones24 min
Mar 31, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDelaware49 min
Mar 31, 5:36 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDelaware, Dubuque, Jones39 min
Mar 31, 5:37 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNCedar, Clinton, Scott38 min
Mar 31, 5:40 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNCedar, Clinton, Jackson, Jones50 min
Mar 31, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNClinton, Muscatine, Scott45 min
Mar 31, 5:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDes Moines, Louisa26 min
Mar 31, 5:56 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNClinton, Jackson24 min
Mar 31, 6:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDubuque, Jackson35 min
Mar 31, 6:12 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNClinton, Jackson32 min

By county

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

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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.