Alert archive / Iowa / 2005
Weather alerts in Iowa, April 2005
67 weather alerts in April 2005, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 67
- Warnings
- 40
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- April 20, 200522 alerts
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 4:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 24 min |
| Apr 6, 5:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon, Sioux | 28 min |
| Apr 6, 7:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Clay | 92 min |
| Apr 6, 2:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Howard, Winneshiek | 2 hr |
| Apr 9, 9:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lyon, Sioux | 115 min |
| Apr 10, 2:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 66 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 10, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 37 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 10, 7:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 36 more | 56 min |
| Apr 11, 10:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 18 more | 95 min |
| Apr 11, 11:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford, Fremont, Greene and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 11, 5:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford, Fremont, Greene and 8 more | 59 min |
| Apr 16, 6:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay and 16 more | 113 min |
| Apr 17, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clayton | 39 min |
| Apr 17, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clayton | 52 min |
| Apr 17, 4:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Kossuth, Lyon, O'Brien and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 49 min |
| Apr 18, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Fremont, Harrison, Ida, Lyon and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 18, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Kossuth | 29 min |
| Apr 18, 6:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Fremont, Harrison, Ida, Lyon and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 18, 8:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Dallas, Fremont and 7 more | 63 min |
| Apr 18, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Guthrie and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 18, 11:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Guthrie and 6 more | 83 min |
| Apr 18, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 1:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 17 more | 30 min |
| Apr 19, 5:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Montgomery | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 10:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Clarke | 33 min |
| Apr 19, 10:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Lucas | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 10:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 27 more | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Greene | 36 min |
| Apr 19, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk, Tama | 26 min |
| Apr 19, 7:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 27 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 63 min |
| Apr 19, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Shelby | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Grundy, Tama | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon, Carroll | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Carroll | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Guthrie | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 30 min |
| Apr 19, 11:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Audubon, Guthrie | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 1:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harrison, Monona, Woodbury | 2 hr |
| Apr 20, 1:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harrison, Monona, Woodbury | 117 min |
| Apr 20, 2:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Guthrie | 6 hr |
| Apr 20, 5:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison, Monona | 44 min |
| Apr 20, 6:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills | 53 min |
| Apr 20, 6:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Montgomery | 48 min |
| Apr 20, 8:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk, Warren | 41 min |
| Apr 20, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Muscatine | 42 min |
| Apr 20, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Des Moines | 60 min |
| Apr 20, 7:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott | 87 min |
| Apr 21, 3:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 2 more | 116 min |
| Apr 21, 4:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 36 min |
| Apr 21, 6:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon | 45 min |
| Apr 21, 3:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills | 85 min |
| Apr 21, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 21, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont | 40 min |
| Apr 21, 5:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 53 min |
| Apr 21, 6:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Fremont | 119 min |
| Apr 21, 6:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 84 min |
| Apr 21, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont | 31 min |
| Apr 21, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 55 min |
| Apr 21, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Decatur, Ringgold | 52 min |
| Apr 21, 9:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams | 55 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 36 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 22 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fremont County21
- Pottawattamie County19
- Harrison County18
- Mills County18
- Montgomery County16
- Page County15
- Audubon County14
- Guthrie County14
- Shelby County14
- Cass County12
- Monona County12
- Woodbury County12
- Adams County11
- Carroll County11
- Lyon County10
- Crawford County10
- Greene County10
- Adair County9
- Dallas County9
- Sioux County8
- Boone County8
- Ida County8
- Cherokee County7
- Clay County6
- Calhoun County6
- Kossuth County6
- O'Brien County6
- Osceola County6
- Plymouth County6
- Sac County6
- Taylor County6
- Buena Vista County5
- Franklin County5
- Hamilton County5
- Hardin County5
- Palo Alto County5
- Pocahontas County5
- Tama County5
- Webster County5
- Wright County5
56 more counties
- Clayton County4
- Black Hawk County4
- Dickinson County4
- Emmet County4
- Grundy County4
- Humboldt County4
- Ringgold County4
- Story County4
- Warren County4
- Clarke County3
- Jasper County3
- Lucas County3
- Madison County3
- Mahaska County3
- Marion County3
- Marshall County3
- Polk County3
- Winnebago County3
- Muscatine County3
- Fayette County2
- Howard County2
- Appanoose County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Decatur County2
- Hancock County2
- Monroe County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Union County2
- Henry County2
- Louisa County2
- Des Moines County2
- Allamakee County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Floyd County1
- Mitchell County1
- Wayne County1
- Worth County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Cedar County1
- Davis County1
- Delaware County1
- Iowa County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Linn County1
- Van Buren County1
- Wapello County1
- Washington County1
- Lee County1
- Scott County1
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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.