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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, April 2024

65 tornado warnings in April 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
65
Busiest day
April 16, 202425 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
Apr 7, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXButler, Grundy31 min
Apr 16, 11:09 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Dallas36 min
Apr 16, 1:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth, Woodbury24 min
Apr 16, 1:46 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth, Woodbury29 min
Apr 16, 1:58 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFSDPlymouth, Sioux32 min
Apr 16, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth, Sioux30 min
Apr 16, 2:22 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDSioux23 min
Apr 16, 2:36 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXCalhoun, Humboldt, Pocahontas39 min
Apr 16, 2:38 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFSDLyon, Sioux22 min
Apr 16, 2:48 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Linn27 min
Apr 16, 2:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon, Sioux11 min
Apr 16, 2:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon, Osceola, Sioux31 min
Apr 16, 3:11 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXHumboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas49 min
Apr 16, 3:13 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBuchanan, Delaware32 min
Apr 16, 3:19 PM CDTTornado WarningARXClayton, Fayette26 min
Apr 16, 3:20 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar, Delaware, Dubuque, Jones, Linn25 min
Apr 16, 3:39 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNVan Buren51 min
Apr 16, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHumboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas42 min
Apr 16, 4:07 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay, Dickinson23 min
Apr 16, 4:13 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry, Lee, Van Buren47 min
Apr 16, 4:17 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar, Johnson, Linn28 min
Apr 16, 4:51 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNDes Moines, Henry, Louisa39 min
Apr 16, 4:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDes Moines, Lee51 min
Apr 16, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXEmmet, Kossuth, Palo Alto45 min
Apr 16, 5:20 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLouisa40 min
Apr 16, 5:59 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNScott31 min
Apr 26, 3:41 PM CDTTornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threatOAXHarrison, Pottawattamie49 min
Apr 26, 4:19 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Mills41 min
Apr 26, 4:22 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatOAXHarrison38 min
Apr 26, 4:26 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie49 min
Apr 26, 4:34 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison41 min
Apr 26, 4:54 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Pottawattamie51 min
Apr 26, 4:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Monona65 min
Apr 26, 4:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery20 min
Apr 26, 4:59 PM CDTTornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedOAXMills, Pottawattamie61 min
Apr 26, 5:05 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Monona40 min
Apr 26, 5:25 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOAXHarrison, Pottawattamie, Shelby28 min
Apr 26, 5:38 PM CDTTornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedOAXHarrison, Shelby55 min
Apr 26, 5:48 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMonona18 min
Apr 26, 5:49 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMontgomery, Page41 min
Apr 26, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdams, Taylor45 min
Apr 26, 6:16 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXCarroll, Crawford44 min
Apr 26, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Shelby13 min
Apr 26, 6:19 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPage11 min
Apr 26, 6:21 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdams, Taylor39 min
Apr 26, 6:43 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDMXCrawford47 min
Apr 26, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Union51 min
Apr 26, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdams, Ringgold, Taylor, Union49 min
Apr 26, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll, Crawford34 min
Apr 26, 7:02 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXShelby43 min
Apr 26, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie, Shelby33 min
Apr 26, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdair, Madison, Union44 min
Apr 26, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXRinggold39 min
Apr 26, 7:43 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXAdair, Clarke, Madison, Union47 min
Apr 26, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMadison, Warren49 min
Apr 26, 7:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXClarke, Decatur, Ringgold, Union47 min
Apr 26, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXClarke, Madison, Union35 min
Apr 26, 8:20 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDallas, Madison, Polk, Warren25 min
Apr 26, 8:38 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXClarke, Ringgold, Union29 min
Apr 26, 8:40 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXClarke, Lucas, Marion, Warren50 min
Apr 26, 8:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Marion, Polk, Warren41 min
Apr 26, 9:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Marion, Warren46 min
Apr 26, 9:47 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper28 min
Apr 26, 11:02 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPolk21 min
Apr 30, 3:36 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie39 min

By county

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

16 more counties

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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.