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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, May 2024

83 tornado warnings in May 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 May 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
83
Busiest day
May 21, 202437 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 30, 7:24 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXAppanoose, Lucas, Monroe, Wayne31 min
Apr 30, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAppanoose, Davis, Monroe, Wapello50 min
Apr 30, 8:17 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDavis43 min
Apr 30, 8:36 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNVan Buren39 min
May 6, 7:48 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon, Sioux27 min
May 6, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon35 min
May 6, 8:51 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills, Pottawattamie24 min
May 6, 9:12 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie, Shelby18 min
May 6, 9:25 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXShelby35 min
May 6, 9:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll, Crawford45 min
May 6, 10:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Carroll, Greene, Webster49 min
May 7, 12:47 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXClarke, Decatur, Lucas, Warren43 min
May 7, 1:21 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Mahaska, Marion, Polk, Warren39 min
May 9, 1:11 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedARXFloyd16 min
May 20, 11:14 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie28 min
May 21, 12:02 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Pottawattamie43 min
May 21, 12:53 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXShelby39 min
May 21, 1:10 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXShelby25 min
May 21, 5:39 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Monona36 min
May 21, 5:53 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Pottawattamie37 min
May 21, 6:45 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie30 min
May 21, 6:54 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page36 min
May 21, 7:04 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Page26 min
May 21, 7:24 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdair, Cass36 min
May 21, 12:50 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison19 min
May 21, 1:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont45 min
May 21, 1:43 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Mills47 min
May 21, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page45 min
May 21, 2:38 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMontgomery, Page30 min
May 21, 2:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdams, Cass18 min
May 21, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Cass, Union50 min
May 21, 3:07 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Madison, Taylor, Union53 min
May 21, 3:13 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAudubon, Cass, Greene, Guthrie22 min
May 21, 3:26 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXAdair, Adams, Madison, Union49 min
May 21, 3:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXRinggold, Taylor, Union42 min
May 21, 3:35 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDMXAdair, Dallas, Guthrie, Madison40 min
May 21, 3:40 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXAdair, Adams, Dallas, Madison, Ringgold, Union50 min
May 21, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXClarke, Madison, Ringgold, Union, Warren50 min
May 21, 3:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXClarke, Decatur, Lucas, Ringgold, Union, Warren47 min
May 21, 4:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Hamilton, Webster42 min
May 21, 4:19 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Dallas, Polk, Story41 min
May 21, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Madison, Polk, Warren45 min
May 21, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXFranklin, Grundy, Hamilton, Hardin17 min
May 21, 4:48 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDMXHardin, Marshall, Polk, Story31 min
May 21, 4:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAppanoose, Lucas, Monroe, Wayne52 min
May 21, 5:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Marshall27 min
May 21, 5:28 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMahaska, Marion, Monroe, Wapello47 min
May 21, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Tama34 min
May 21, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBremer, Butler, Grundy22 min
May 21, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan28 min
May 21, 6:49 PM CDTTornado WarningARXAllamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Winneshiek15 min
May 21, 7:38 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDVNCedar, Muscatine, Scott22 min
May 24, 2:00 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Pottawattamie45 min
May 24, 2:05 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Monona40 min
May 24, 2:11 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXMonona35 min
May 24, 2:35 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie40 min
May 24, 2:39 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby31 min
May 24, 3:09 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie23 min
May 24, 3:18 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Cass42 min
May 24, 3:25 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXAudubon, Carroll, Crawford, Guthrie25 min
May 24, 3:37 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXDecatur, Lucas, Wayne23 min
May 24, 3:42 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXAudubon, Cass, Greene, Guthrie33 min
May 24, 4:00 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXLucas, Monroe, Wayne30 min
May 24, 4:00 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXCass, Dallas, Guthrie30 min
May 24, 4:14 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Dallas, Greene, Guthrie31 min
May 24, 4:18 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdair, Dallas, Madison27 min
May 24, 4:28 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Dallas, Greene, Guthrie, Polk32 min
May 24, 4:41 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Dallas, Polk, Story34 min
May 24, 4:46 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Dallas, Polk, Story44 min
May 24, 5:04 AM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXJasper, Mahaska, Marion, Polk, Poweshiek, Warren41 min
May 24, 5:09 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXHardin, Marshall, Story36 min
May 24, 5:15 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Marshall, Polk, Story23 min
May 24, 5:32 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Mahaska, Marion, Poweshiek43 min
May 24, 5:54 AM CDTTornado WarningDVNIowa, Keokuk, Washington51 min
May 24, 6:00 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXMahaska, Poweshiek20 min
May 24, 6:29 AM CDTTornado WarningDVNIowa, Johnson, Louisa, Washington46 min
May 24, 7:02 AM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar, Johnson, Jones, Linn, Muscatine43 min
May 24, 7:08 AM CDTTornado WarningDVNDelaware, Dubuque, Jones, Linn52 min
May 24, 7:39 AM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar, Clinton, Jackson, Jones, Scott51 min
May 24, 7:54 AM CDTTornado WarningDVNDubuque, Jackson36 min
May 24, 8:00 AM CDTTornado WarningDVNClinton, Jackson, Scott45 min
May 24, 8:27 AM CDTTornado WarningDVNJackson48 min
May 24, 8:37 AM CDTTornado WarningDVNClinton, Jackson53 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.