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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, August 2025

12 tornado warnings in August 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 August 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
12
Busiest day
August 12, 20257 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
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.

Nearby

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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.