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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 2025

58 tornado warnings in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
58
Busiest month
July19 tornado warnings
Busiest day
July 11, 202511 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

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 17, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie33 min
Apr 17, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Pottawattamie, Shelby37 min
Apr 17, 7:54 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie51 min
Apr 17, 7:56 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOAXFremont, Mills49 min
Apr 17, 8:22 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page38 min
Apr 17, 8:23 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCass40 min
Apr 17, 8:51 PM CDTTornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threatOAXFremont, Montgomery, Page24 min
Apr 17, 9:08 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatOAXMontgomery, Page28 min
Apr 17, 9:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdams, Taylor42 min
Apr 20, 7:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDes Moines, Louisa42 min
Apr 20, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNMuscatine, Scott32 min
Apr 24, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie30 min
Apr 24, 5:22 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie13 min
Apr 24, 6:28 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison, Pottawattamie, Shelby32 min
Apr 28, 5:43 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXEmmet, Palo Alto16 min
Apr 28, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXEmmet, Kossuth22 min
Apr 28, 8:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCass26 min
May 20, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNClinton, Muscatine, Scott45 min
Jun 3, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDes Moines, Henry, Lee, Van Buren49 min
Jun 3, 5:47 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDes Moines, Lee43 min
Jun 3, 6:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDes Moines31 min
Jun 3, 6:46 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNScott29 min
Jun 3, 7:07 PM CDTTornado Warning Considerable damage threatDVNClinton, Scott38 min
Jun 25, 3:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWinnebago, Worth20 min
Jun 25, 7:18 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedARXAllamakee27 min
Jun 26, 1:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCerro Gordo, Worth28 min
Jun 26, 4:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Wright28 min
Jul 10, 5:08 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPoweshiek23 min
Jul 10, 5:48 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDelaware, Dubuque42 min
Jul 10, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCerro Gordo35 min
Jul 10, 6:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJackson, Jones51 min
Jul 10, 9:42 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNScott18 min
Jul 10, 11:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGuthrie30 min
Jul 11, 2:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWapello30 min
Jul 11, 2:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Marshall48 min
Jul 11, 2:38 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJefferson, Keokuk, Washington13 min
Jul 11, 2:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry, Jefferson, Van Buren51 min
Jul 11, 3:58 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXTaylor32 min
Jul 11, 4:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDelaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones, Linn51 min
Jul 11, 4:19 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXClarke26 min
Jul 11, 4:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDelaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones38 min
Jul 11, 5:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNMuscatine, Scott40 min
Jul 19, 5:52 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Story23 min
Jul 19, 6:22 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXPolk23 min
Jul 22, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Marshall, Polk, Story18 min
Jul 28, 9:34 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux26 min
Aug 10, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDubuque23 min
Aug 10, 7:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNLee29 min
Aug 11, 9:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAppanoose, Davis27 min
Aug 11, 9:39 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDavis51 min
Aug 11, 9:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDavis23 min
Aug 11, 9:50 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNVan Buren40 min
Aug 11, 10:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNVan Buren38 min
Aug 11, 10:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNVan Buren30 min
Aug 11, 11:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry46 min
Aug 17, 6:13 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXHancock, Winnebago47 min
Aug 17, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWinnebago36 min
Aug 17, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXKossuth, Winnebago16 min

By county

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

11 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. July 11, 202511tornado warnings
  2. April 18, 20258tornado warnings
  3. August 12, 20257tornado warnings
  4. June 3, 20254tornado warnings
  5. July 10, 20254tornado warnings
  6. April 24, 20253tornado warnings
  7. June 26, 20253tornado warnings
  8. August 17, 20253tornado warnings
  9. April 21, 20252tornado warnings
  10. April 28, 20252tornado warnings
  11. July 19, 20252tornado warnings
  12. April 17, 20251tornado warnings

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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.