Alert archive / Iowa / Flash Flood Warnings / 2021
Flash Flood Warnings in Iowa, August 2021
21 flash flood warnings in August 2021. 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 August 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Warnings
- 21
- Busiest day
- August 28, 20215 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 9:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 4 hr |
| Aug 7, 9:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 10:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 89 min |
| Aug 9, 12:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Chickasaw, Floyd | 6 hr |
| Aug 11, 6:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Lee | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 9:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Van Buren | 4 hr |
| Aug 12, 10:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Lee, Van Buren | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 11:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Davis | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 7:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Iowa, Keokuk, Washington | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 10:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Keokuk | 4 hr |
| Aug 27, 1:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Howard, Mitchell | 4 hr |
| Aug 27, 3:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 4 hr |
| Aug 27, 8:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo, Hancock, Winnebago, Worth | 6 hr |
| Aug 27, 8:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Howard, Mitchell | 9 hr |
| Aug 27, 11:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Chickasaw, Floyd | 6 hr |
| Aug 28, 1:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Fayette, Winneshiek | 4 hr |
| Aug 28, 5:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Buchanan, Delaware | 4 hr |
| Aug 28, 9:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Lyon | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 10:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Lyon, Osceola | 4 hr |
| Aug 28, 10:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Dickinson, Osceola | 5 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Scott | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pottawattamie County3
- Howard County3
- Mitchell County3
- Chickasaw County2
- Floyd County2
- Lee County2
- Van Buren County2
- Keokuk County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Lyon County2
- Osceola County2
- Des Moines County1
- Appanoose County1
- Davis County1
- Iowa County1
- Washington County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Hancock County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Fayette County1
- Buchanan County1
- Delaware County1
- Dickinson 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.