Storms in Iowa in 2015
Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Iowa in 2015, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.
Iowa in 2015 on the map
Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The year
- Events
- 2,102
- Deaths
- 5
- Injuries
- 9
- Damage
- $54 million
- Episodes
- 189
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
By kind of event
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy Rain | 435 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hail | 350 | 0 | 0 | $2.7 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 342 | 0 | 0 | $56,000 |
| Winter Storm | 315 | 2 | 0 | $2.7 million |
| Flood | 126 | 0 | 0 | $12 million |
| Flash Flood | 124 | 1 | 2 | $23 million |
| Winter Weather | 94 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 82 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tornado | 72 | 1 | 5 | $13 million |
| Funnel Cloud | 35 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 34 | 1 | 1 | |
| High Wind | 33 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 31 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 17 | 0 | 1 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 2 | 0 | 0 | $55,000 |
| Wildfire | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Every episode, month by month
January 2015
- Blizzard and Winter Weather in Iowa, January 3 to 4, 2015
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Iowa, January 5, 2015
- Heavy Snow in Iowa, January 5, 2015
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Iowa, January 5 to 6, 2015
- Extreme Cold in Iowa, January 6 to 7, 2015
- Cold in Iowa, January 7, 2015
- Winter Weather in Iowa, January 8, 2015
- Blizzard in Iowa, January 8, 2015
- Blizzard in Iowa, January 8 to 9, 2015
- Winter Weather in Iowa, January 8, 2015
- Winter Weather in Iowa, January 19, 2015
- Winter Storm in Iowa, January 31, 2015
- Winter Storm in Iowa, January 31, 2015
- Winter Storm in Iowa, January 31, 2015
February 2015
- Winter Storm in Iowa, February 1, 2015
- Winter Storm in Iowa, February 1, 2015
- Winter Storm in Iowa, February 1, 2015
- Winter Storm in Iowa, February 1, 2015
- Winter Storm in Iowa, February 1, 2015
- Winter Weather in Iowa, February 4, 2015
- Heavy Snow in Iowa, February 4, 2015
- Winter Weather in Iowa, February 4, 2015
- Winter Weather in Iowa, February 8, 2015
- Winter Weather in Iowa, February 9, 2015
- Cold in Iowa, February 17, 2015
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Iowa, February 25, 2015
- Heavy Snow in Iowa, February 25, 2015
- Heavy Snow in Iowa, February 25, 2015
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Iowa, February 25 to 26, 2015
March 2015
April 2015
- Hail in Iowa, April 1, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, April 1, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, April 7, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, April 7 to 8, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, April 8, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, April 8, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, April 9, 2015
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Iowa, April 9, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, April 12, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, April 18, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, April 19, 2015
May 2015
- High Wind in Iowa, May 3, 2015
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, May 3, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 3 to 4, 2015
- Flash Flood and Hail in Iowa, May 4, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, May 4, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, May 7, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 7, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 7, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, May 7, 2015
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 10, 2015
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, May 10, 2015
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, May 10, 2015
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 17, 2015
- Damaging Wind and High Wind in Iowa, May 17, 2015
- Tornado in Iowa, May 24, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, May 25, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, May 25, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, May 25, 2015
- Tornado in Iowa, May 26, 2015
- Funnel Clouds in Iowa, May 26, 2015
- Funnel Cloud in Iowa, May 29, 2015
June 2015
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 6 to 7, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 6, 2015
- Flash Flood in Iowa, June 6, 2015
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, June 6, 2015
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, June 7, 2015
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 7, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 10 to 11, 2015
- Flash Flood and Hail in Iowa, June 10 to 12, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Iowa, June 10 to 12, 2015
- Flooding in Iowa, June 11 to 17, 2015
- Flooding in Iowa, June 12 to 17, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in Iowa, June 14 to 15, 2015
- Funnel Clouds in Iowa, June 14, 2015
- Funnel Clouds in Iowa, June 15, 2015
- Flash Flooding in Iowa, June 15, 2015
- Funnel Cloud in Iowa, June 17, 2015
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, June 20, 2015
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, June 20, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, June 21, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 22, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 22, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 22, 2015
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Iowa, June 22 to 24, 2015
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Iowa, June 22, 2015
- Hail and Heavy Rain in Iowa, June 23 to 24, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Iowa, June 23 to 25, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, June 24, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, June 24, 2015
- Flooding in Iowa, June 25 to 29, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, June 26, 2015
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, June 27, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, June 28, 2015
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, June 28, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, June 29, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, June 29, 2015
July 2015
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 5 to 6, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 6, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Iowa, July 10 to 11, 2015
- Flash Flooding in Iowa, July 11, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, July 13, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, July 13, 2015
- Flooding and Heavy Rain in Iowa, July 15 to 17, 2015
- Flash Flooding in Iowa, July 15 to 16, 2015
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, July 16, 2015
- Funnel Clouds in Iowa, July 16, 2015
- Tornado and Lightning Strike in Iowa, July 16, 2015
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 17, 2015
- High Wind in Iowa, July 18, 2015
- Flash Flood and Hail in Iowa, July 23 to 24, 2015
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 24, 2015
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 24 to 25, 2015
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 26, 2015
- Flash Flooding in Iowa, July 26, 2015
- Flooding in Iowa, July 26 to 29, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 27, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Iowa, July 28 to 30, 2015
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 28, 2015
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 28, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 31, 2015
August 2015
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, August 2, 2015
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, August 2, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, August 2, 2015
- Funnel Cloud in Iowa, August 7, 2015
- Hail and Heavy Rain in Iowa, August 8 to 9, 2015
- Flash Flooding in Iowa, August 9 to 12, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, August 9, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 9 to 10, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 9 to 10, 2015
- Flood in Iowa, August 11 to 12, 2015
- Heavy Rain in Iowa, August 16 to 17, 2015
- Flash Flood in Iowa, August 16, 2015
- Flooding in Iowa, August 17 to 19, 2015
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Iowa, August 17, 2015
- Heavy Rain in Iowa, August 17 to 18, 2015
- Funnel Cloud in Iowa, August 17, 2015
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Iowa, August 18, 2015
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, August 22, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, August 27, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Iowa, August 27 to 31, 2015
September 2015
- Flooding in Iowa, September 1 to 2, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Iowa, September 6 to 8, 2015
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, September 6, 2015
- Flood and Heavy Rain in Iowa, September 7 to 9, 2015
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, September 8, 2015
- Hail and Heavy Rain in Iowa, September 9, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, September 10, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, September 10, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, September 10, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, September 17, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, September 17 to 18, 2015
- Flood in Iowa, September 19, 2015
- Flash Flood and Hail in Iowa, September 22 to 23, 2015
October 2015
- Wildfire in Iowa, October 12, 2015
- Lightning Strike in Iowa, October 20, 2015
- Tornadoes in Iowa, October 23, 2015
- Tornado in Iowa, October 23, 2015
November 2015
- Hail in Iowa, November 11, 2015
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Iowa, November 11, 2015
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, November 11 to 12, 2015
- Hail in Iowa, November 11, 2015
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, November 11, 2015
- High Wind in Iowa, November 11 to 12, 2015
- Heavy Snow in Iowa, November 20, 2015
- Winter Storm in Iowa, November 20 to 21, 2015
- Heavy Snow in Iowa, November 20 to 21, 2015
- Winter Storm in Iowa, November 20 to 21, 2015
- Ice Storm and Heavy Rain in Iowa, November 26 to 27, 2015
- Winter Storm in Iowa, November 26, 2015
- Winter Storm in Iowa, November 30, 2015
- Winter Storm in Iowa, November 30, 2015
December 2015
- Winter Storm in Iowa, December 1, 2015
- Heavy Rain in Iowa, December 12 to 14, 2015
- Flooding and Heavy Rain in Iowa, December 13 to 15, 2015
- Flooding in Iowa, December 13 to 25, 2015
- Flooding in Iowa, December 13 to 17, 2015
- Flooding in Iowa, December 15 to 16, 2015
- Flooding in Iowa, December 21 to 24, 2015
- Flooding in Iowa, December 21 to 31, 2015
- Tornadoes in Iowa, December 23, 2015
- Heavy Snow in Iowa, December 24, 2015
- Winter Storm in Iowa, December 24, 2015
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Iowa, December 25 to 26, 2015
- Blizzard and Winter Storm in Iowa, December 28 to 29, 2015
- Winter Storm in Iowa, December 28 to 29, 2015
- Winter Storm in Iowa, December 28 to 29, 2015
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Iowa, December 28 to 29, 2015
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.