Alert archive / Iowa / Flash Flood Warnings / 2019
Flash Flood Warnings in Iowa, May 2019
30 flash flood warnings in May 2019. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.
Flash Flood Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Warnings
- 30
- Busiest day
- May 28, 20199 flash flood warnings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 9:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Iowa | 5 hr |
| May 16, 9:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Cedar, Johnson, Muscatine, Washington | 4 hr |
| May 18, 7:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Chickasaw | 6 hr |
| May 18, 8:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Iowa, Johnson, Jones, Linn | 6 hr |
| May 18, 10:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Keokuk | 104 min |
| May 22, 7:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Lee | 3 hr |
| May 24, 4:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Cass | 6 hr |
| May 24, 5:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 5 hr |
| May 24, 9:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Delaware | 6 hr |
| May 24, 9:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 3 hr |
| May 24, 10:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Adair | 3 hr |
| May 25, 8:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Lee | 6 hr |
| May 27, 1:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Scott | 4 hr |
| May 27, 2:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Lee | 4 hr |
| May 28, 4:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 3 hr |
| May 28, 8:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Adams, Taylor | 2 hr |
| May 28, 12:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Scott | 3 hr |
| May 28, 5:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Davis, Lucas, Monroe, Wapello, Wayne | 6 hr |
| May 28, 5:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Van Buren, Washington | 8 hr |
| May 28, 6:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Decatur, Ringgold, Wayne | 5 hr |
| May 28, 6:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Louisa | 8 hr |
| May 28, 6:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Muscatine, Scott | 8 hr |
| May 28, 6:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Cedar, Iowa, Johnson | 8 hr |
| May 28, 7:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Ringgold, Taylor | 6 hr |
| May 28, 7:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Lee | 8 hr |
| May 29, 8:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Benton, Iowa, Johnson, Linn | 6 hr |
| May 29, 8:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Lee | 6 hr |
| May 29, 9:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Johnson, Lee, Louisa | 5 hr |
| May 29, 10:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Jackson, Jones, Scott | 6 hr |
| May 29, 10:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Muscatine, Scott | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lee County6
- Johnson County5
- Scott County5
- Des Moines County5
- Iowa County4
- Cedar County3
- Muscatine County3
- Henry County3
- Washington County2
- Jones County2
- Linn County2
- Keokuk County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Fremont County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Taylor County2
- Wayne County2
- Ringgold County2
- Louisa County2
- Chickasaw County1
- Cass County1
- Delaware County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Appanoose County1
- Davis County1
- Lucas County1
- Monroe County1
- Wapello County1
- Jefferson County1
- Van Buren County1
- Decatur County1
- Benton County1
- Clinton County1
- Jackson County1
Nearby
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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.