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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, May 2023

29 tornado warnings in May 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 May 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
29
Busiest day
May 13, 202322 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 7, 5:50 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNCedar, Muscatine14 min
May 7, 8:11 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont22 min
May 7, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills, Montgomery, Page19 min
May 12, 6:51 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont24 min
May 12, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMonona36 min
May 12, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Page39 min
May 12, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Monona37 min
May 12, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDWoodbury35 min
May 12, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth, Woodbury29 min
May 13, 1:02 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMarion, Warren43 min
May 13, 1:42 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMarion48 min
May 13, 1:48 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBuena Vista27 min
May 13, 2:25 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMarion50 min
May 13, 3:26 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXMarion37 min
May 13, 3:40 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXMahaska, Marion30 min
May 13, 4:25 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFSDBuena Vista35 min
May 13, 4:31 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Pocahontas, Sac29 min
May 13, 4:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBuena Vista24 min
May 13, 4:57 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXCalhoun, Pocahontas, Sac16 min
May 13, 5:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPocahontas23 min
May 13, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPocahontas32 min
May 13, 6:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMarion, Warren36 min
May 13, 6:23 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXCalhoun, Pocahontas37 min
May 13, 6:25 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXMarion21 min
May 13, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPocahontas34 min
May 13, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPocahontas25 min
May 13, 6:53 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXMarion24 min
May 13, 7:26 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXPalo Alto, Pocahontas34 min
May 13, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWebster33 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. Rebuilt daily.