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The other active tornado warning:

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN
RINGGOLD AND SOUTHEASTERN TAYLOR COUNTIES...

At 748 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located over Redding, or 10 miles southwest of Mount Ayr, moving
northeast at 20 mph.

HAZARD...Tornado.

SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.

NWS tornado watch has been expanded to include many counties in central, sout-central, and southwestern Iowa. . Map updated at 7:58 pm.

Full report of currently active tornado watches managed by NWS in Des Moines here: https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=DMX&wwa=tornado%20watch

Active tornado warnings here: https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=DMX&wwa=tornado%20warning

WWA Summary for Tornado Watch Issued by DMX

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#IowaWeather #IAwx #TornadoWarning #AltText

Screenshot including map key for folks that aren’t familiar with all the colors.

https://www.weather.gov/dmx/

On the alt text with these maps, I’m trying my best to balance providing something helpful for vision-impaired vs speed/urgency. If you’re vision-impaired, your best bet if you see one of my messages may be to use weather radio and the text of the NWS website with a screen reader.

Practically speaking, it’d take me 15 plus minutes to fully describe most of these weather maps, but by then, it’s out of date and no longer helpful as an urgent alert.

Des Moines, IA

Currently only one active tornado warning in Iowa, east / northeast of Des Moines.

Tornado Warning
National Weather Service Des Moines IA
818 PM CDT Mon May 18 2026

* Tornado Warning for...
Southern Marshall County in central Iowa...
Northern Jasper County in central Iowa...

* Until 900 PM CDT.

* At 818 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located near Mingo, or 12 miles northwest of Newton, moving east at 45 mph.

KCCI at 8:30 pm says storm spotters observed a funnel cloud near Ringgold County Iowa, and NWS may issue a warning for it. Currently the warning in that area is only issued in Missouri.

https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=DMX&wwa=tornado%20warning

NWS has closed all tornado warnings in Iowa. KCCI resumed regular programming. Hopefully this is it for tonight.

WWA Summary for Tornado Warning Issued by DMX

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I’ve got the radio station on from Bethany, Missouri. They have someone at the studio keeping track. They do a good job on the storms that come at us from Missouri.

Country music in between reports🤠🤠🤠🤠.

That was warning #2 for us. We had a tornado warning at 6:30. Now we’re on our 3rd feisty storm cell with wind, lightning, and lots of rain.

@donray Two warnings in one night? That’s a lot.

We managed to avoid being covered by any warnings the last couple of days, but that warning that popped up without a watch was close.

The rain is probably going to do the most damage. They are already posting flood warning in NW Missouri.

@donray I believe that. It was already soaking wet and as humid as a jungle in the western suburbs at 5 pm, and we had maybe another inch or two tonight.

We’ve had 3.4” since 6:30 pm. And a total of 7.2” starting on Saturday. Soggy.

Source: https://water.noaa.gov/#@=-93.5872398,41.365807,5.556654&b=topographic&g=obsFcst,0!0!0!0!0!0!0!0!0!0!0!0!0!0!0!0!0!0!0!0,0.5,1!1!1!1!0,0,0,false&ab=0,0,%23D94B4A,1,1,1,%23000000,1,0,0,%23B243B1,1,0,0,%2398E09A,1,false&a=hide,0.35,false&s=0,0,0.9,0.9,false&n=false,%2372afe9,0.9,0,0.9,0,0.9,false&p=true,0.75,0,9,-1,1,-1,-1,-1,0,true&d=0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,%23006EFF,1,%23006EFF,1,%23006EFF,false&q=

@donray I just checked with NWS. Estimated rainfall from last 3 days. That southern row of Iowa counties apparently got a lot. It’s worse in Northern Missouri.