Alert archive / Iowa / 2005

Weather alerts in Iowa, May 2005

159 weather alerts in May 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 May 2005. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 159
Warnings: 116
Watches: 9
Advisories: 0
Busiest day: May 11, 200554 alerts

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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
May 6, 6:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Humboldt and 7 more	2 hr
May 6, 7:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jackson	2 hr
May 6, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Carroll	52 min
May 6, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Calhoun	49 min
May 6, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Humboldt	42 min
May 6, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Cherokee	27 min
May 6, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Calhoun, Webster	39 min
May 6, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Cherokee	31 min
May 6, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Dickinson	53 min
May 6, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hamilton, Webster	49 min
May 6, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Cherokee, O'Brien	19 min
May 6, 11:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Black Hawk, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw and 23 more	54 min
May 7, 2:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Benton	51 min
May 7, 4:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Hancock, Kossuth	6 hr
May 7, 5:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll and 28 more	118 min
May 7, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Dickinson	42 min
May 7, 7:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, Ida, Lyon, Monona, O'Brien, Osceola and 3 more	116 min
May 7, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux	6 hr
May 7, 11:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux	83 min
May 8, 1:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lyon, Sioux	3 hr
May 8, 1:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 6 more	7 hr
May 8, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Audubon, Carroll, Crawford, Fremont, Harrison, Mills and 5 more	7 hr
May 8, 3:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo and 28 more	85 min
May 8, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Crawford	22 min
May 8, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	42 min
May 8, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Sac	26 min
May 8, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Shelby	26 min
May 8, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Crawford	41 min
May 8, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Sac	45 min
May 8, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Buena Vista, Clay	30 min
May 8, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Pocahontas	56 min
May 8, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Shelby	23 min
May 8, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay, Dickinson	36 min
May 8, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	41 min
May 8, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Carroll, Crawford	36 min
May 8, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Calhoun	27 min
May 8, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Palo Alto	52 min
May 8, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Sac	50 min
May 8, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Emmet, Kossuth	44 min
May 8, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Calhoun	52 min
May 8, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Osceola	23 min
May 8, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Pocahontas	44 min
May 8, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Kossuth	53 min
May 8, 5:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Emmet and 12 more	63 min
May 8, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Calhoun, Emmet, Franklin, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin and 7 more	8 hr
May 8, 5:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Pocahontas	4 hr
May 8, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Humboldt	50 min
May 8, 5:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Crawford	4 hr
May 8, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Kossuth	45 min
May 8, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Sioux	27 min
May 8, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hancock, Wright	63 min
May 8, 6:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Kossuth	4 hr
May 8, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Webster	44 min
May 8, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon	28 min
May 8, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Winnebago	40 min
May 8, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon	33 min
May 8, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon, Sioux	23 min
May 8, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison	36 min
May 8, 7:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Buena Vista, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson and 16 more	2 hr
May 8, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison	45 min
May 8, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Plymouth, Sioux	37 min
May 8, 8:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Plymouth	3 hr
May 8, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Dickinson	43 min
May 10, 5:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harrison, Mills, Pottawattamie	119 min
May 10, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 13 more	7 hr
May 10, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Shelby	34 min
May 10, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon	59 min
May 10, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Shelby	30 min
May 10, 7:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 26 more	2 hr
May 10, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Carroll	47 min
May 10, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Shelby	25 min
May 10, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Audubon	66 min
May 10, 8:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Guthrie	55 min
May 10, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Carroll, Crawford	45 min
May 10, 9:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler and 33 more	2 hr
May 10, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon	48 min
May 10, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Shelby	31 min
May 10, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Guthrie	60 min
May 10, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Dallas	53 min
May 10, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon	25 min
May 10, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Osceola	39 min
May 10, 9:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay, Clayton, Dickinson and 15 more	2 hr
May 10, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	50 min
May 10, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Cass	46 min
May 10, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair, Madison	65 min
May 10, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Shelby	32 min
May 10, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon	44 min
May 10, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Winnebago	35 min
May 10, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Dickinson	32 min
May 10, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Dallas, Guthrie	64 min
May 10, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Cerro Gordo, Worth	53 min
May 10, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Sioux	45 min
May 10, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Shelby	44 min
May 10, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	34 min
May 10, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	34 min
May 10, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon	58 min
May 10, 11:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Dickinson	2 hr
May 10, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair, Madison	57 min
May 10, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison	42 min
May 10, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Winnebago	56 min
May 10, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Dallas	46 min
May 10, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie, Shelby	44 min
May 10, 11:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 35 more	85 min
May 10, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Polk, Warren	38 min
May 10, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Plymouth	39 min
May 10, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon, Cass	52 min
May 10, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Sioux	20 min
May 11, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Madison	69 min
May 11, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Jasper, Polk, Warren	44 min
May 11, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Marion	43 min
May 11, 12:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Muscatine, Scott	63 min
May 11, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Jasper	30 min
May 11, 1:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Poweshiek	51 min
May 11, 1:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Iowa	26 min
May 11, 2:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison	41 min
May 11, 2:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Cedar, Johnson, Linn	32 min
May 11, 3:11 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cedar, Clinton, Johnson, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott and 1 more	2 hr
May 11, 3:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Cedar, Clinton, Scott	32 min
May 11, 3:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clinton, Scott	49 min
May 11, 8:41 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appanoose, Davis, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Van Buren and 1 more	2 hr
May 12, 3:44 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Fremont	61 min
May 12, 12:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Fremont, Page	95 min
May 12, 1:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie	7 hr
May 12, 3:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 27 more	87 min
May 12, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont	45 min
May 12, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Montgomery, Pottawattamie	37 min
May 12, 4:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page	4 hr
May 12, 5:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Cass	6 hr
May 12, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Story	61 min
May 13, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Des Moines, Henry, Lee	37 min
May 18, 12:58 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harrison, Monona, Woodbury	62 min
May 18, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison	36 min
May 18, 12:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Buena Vista, Cerro Gordo, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Hancock and 11 more	2 hr
May 18, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux	6 hr
May 18, 6:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Emmet	55 min
May 18, 7:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Webster	31 min
May 18, 7:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Hamilton, Webster	44 min
May 18, 8:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Hamilton	17 min
May 19, 12:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Jackson, Johnson and 4 more	2 hr
May 19, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Jones	33 min
May 19, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jackson and 10 more	8 hr
May 19, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Cedar, Clinton	29 min
May 19, 3:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Jackson, Johnson and 7 more	85 min
May 19, 6:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Jackson, Johnson and 7 more	90 min
May 21, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Buena Vista, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Fremont and 13 more	5 hr
May 21, 7:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Fremont, Harrison and 10 more	94 min
May 21, 8:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Cass, Clarke and 16 more	2 hr
May 22, 12:56 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Decatur, Lucas, Madison and 6 more	64 min
May 24, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon	24 min
May 26, 1:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Black Hawk, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee and 27 more	113 min
May 26, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Dallas, Greene	48 min
May 26, 5:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan and 35 more	83 min
May 26, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Buchanan, Delaware	114 min
May 26, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Winneshiek	36 min
May 26, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Story	39 min
May 27, 2:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cherokee and 21 more	2 hr
May 27, 2:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 28 more	116 min
May 27, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Dubuque	34 min
May 27, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Carroll	33 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	102
Tornado Warning	6
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	5
Tornado Watch	4
Mesoscale Discussion	33
Special Weather Statement	1
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning	8

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. Rebuilt daily.