Alert archive / Iowa / Flash Flood Watches
Flash Flood Watches in Iowa, 2006
5 flash flood watches in 2006. 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
Flash Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 5
- Busiest month
- August4 flash flood watches
- Busiest day
- August 1, 20063 flash flood watches
Over time
By month
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 1, 3:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 23 hr |
| Aug 1, 4:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth and 7 more | 27 hr |
| Aug 1, 3:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ARX | Mitchell | 15 hr |
| Aug 18, 4:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis and 12 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 10, 7:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque | 20 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Emmet County1
- Hancock County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Mitchell County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Cass County1
- Clarke County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Ringgold County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.