Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings / 2024
Tornado Warnings in Iowa, July 2024
22 tornado warnings in July 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 July 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 22
- Busiest day
- July 15, 20248 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Poweshiek | 27 min |
| Jul 2, 4:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Iowa, Keokuk, Washington | 38 min |
| Jul 2, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Monroe, Wapello | 17 min |
| Jul 2, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Appanoose | 47 min |
| Jul 2, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Cedar, Iowa, Johnson, Muscatine, Washington | 42 min |
| Jul 2, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Johnson, Muscatine, Scott | 54 min |
| Jul 2, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones | 51 min |
| Jul 15, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Linn | 39 min |
| Jul 15, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Linn | 38 min |
| Jul 15, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Cedar, Jones, Linn | 41 min |
| Jul 15, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Polk | 10 min |
| Jul 15, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Polk, Warren | 28 min |
| Jul 15, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Montgomery | 15 min |
| Jul 15, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Jackson, Jones | 41 min |
| Jul 15, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Clinton, Scott | 47 min |
| Jul 15, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Muscatine, Scott | 48 min |
| Jul 28, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Jasper, Polk | 19 min |
| Jul 31, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Harrison, Pottawattamie | 30 min |
| Jul 31, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 35 min |
| Jul 31, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Harrison | 14 min |
| Jul 31, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Fremont, Page | 28 min |
| Jul 31, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 37 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cedar County4
- Muscatine County3
- Clinton County3
- Scott County3
- Jones County3
- Linn County3
- Polk County3
- Mahaska County2
- Iowa County2
- Washington County2
- Johnson County2
- Delaware County2
- Jackson County2
- Benton County2
- Buchanan County2
- Montgomery County2
- Harrison County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Fremont County2
- Page County2
- Poweshiek County1
- Keokuk County1
- Monroe County1
- Wapello County1
- Appanoose County1
- Dubuque County1
- Warren County1
- Jasper County1
- Mills 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.