Alert archive / Iowa / Benton County / 2026
Weather alerts in Benton County, Iowa, April 2026
28 weather alerts in April 2026, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
- Alerts
- 28
- Warnings
- 11
- Watches
- 7
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- April 15, 20268 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 | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 1:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Apr 2, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 8:48 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DVN | 21 days |
| Apr 14, 12:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 14, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 93 min |
| Apr 14, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | 39 min |
| Apr 14, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Apr 15, 2:50 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DVN | 20 hr |
| Apr 15, 9:02 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DVN | 6 days |
| Apr 15, 10:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | 54 min |
| Apr 15, 6:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | 3 hr |
| Apr 15, 6:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 17, 12:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Apr 17, 2:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Apr 17, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | 66 min |
| Apr 17, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | 76 min |
| Apr 17, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 2:10 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DVN | 30 hr |
| Apr 23, 8:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 91 min |
| Apr 23, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 12:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 27, 4:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 91 min |
| Apr 27, 5:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | 47 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 | 6 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 4 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 9 |
| Special Weather Statement | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
| River Flood Warning | 2 |
| Flood Watch | 1 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.