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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, July 2025

19 tornado warnings in July 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 July 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
19
Busiest day
July 11, 202511 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
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

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.