Panora is a city in Guthrie County, Iowa. The population was 1,091 at the era of the 2020 census. It is allocation of the Des Moines metropolitan area.

Panora was platted in 1851.

Just previously 10 p.m. on May 11, 2014, an EF2 tornado caused tens of millions of dollars in damages to areas outside of Panora and especially available Lake Panorama including several farms north of Panora and northeast of Yale. The tornado originated south of Guthrie Center close the intersection of Highway 25 and the Monteith Road. It travelled in a northeasterly management for 16.7 miles through Lake Panorama upon a passage through mostly unplanted fields passing both to the south and to the east of Yale and to the south of Jamaica ending southwest of Dawson, sparing those three towns. The passageway of destruction included areas and homes close Shady Beach; near Boulder Beach including eight condos destroyed and very damaging many easily reached homes and condos; around the west side of the gain admission to to Burchfield Cove upon Hickory Point including several homes and buildings; holes 1–4 and 9–18 at the LPA National Golf Course; more than two dozen electrical powerline transmission poles located along the east side of Highway 4 surrounded by 170th and 180th and east of the intersection of Highway 4 and 170th; and several farms to the south and to the east of Yale. The debris pattern was extensive from Boulder cove to southwest of Dawson.

The reprimand sirens in Panora unsuccessful to hermetically sealed due to the approximately concurrent loss of electrical gift and the rude occurrence of the storm: only a couple of minutes together with the release of the tornado reprimand during the loss of electrical talent before the impact of the tornado did not provide ample time for the town to bring online electrical gift from Panora’s backup desiel-powered generator. Luckily, no loss of liveliness occurred.