Alert archive / Iowa / Flash Flood Watches / 2008
Flash Flood Watches in Iowa, May 2008
9 flash flood watches in May 2008. 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 29, 20084 flash flood watches
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 10, 3:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 32 more | 12 hr |
| May 24, 3:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa and 2 more | 44 hr |
| May 24, 3:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 25 more | 39 hr |
| May 25, 4:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 24 hr |
| May 29, 3:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 39 more | 28 hr |
| May 29, 3:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 4 more | 24 hr |
| May 29, 3:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 10 more | 30 hr |
| May 29, 5:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 22 hr |
| May 29, 9:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ARX | Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Mitchell | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adair County3
- Adams County3
- Audubon County3
- Boone County3
- Carroll County3
- Cass County3
- Clarke County3
- Crawford County3
- Dallas County3
- Greene County3
- Guthrie County3
- Jasper County3
- Lucas County3
- Madison County3
- Mahaska County3
- Marion County3
- Marshall County3
- Polk County3
- Poweshiek County3
- Ringgold County3
- Story County3
- Tama County3
- Taylor County3
- Union County3
- Warren County3
- Appanoose County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Calhoun County2
- Davis County2
- Decatur County2
- Grundy County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Monroe County2
- Sac County2
- Wapello County2
- Wayne County2
- Webster County2
- Keokuk County2
- Louisa County2
55 more counties
- Washington County2
- Fremont County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lee County1
- Van Buren County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Hancock County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Linn County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Harrison County1
- Monona County1
- Shelby County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Mitchell 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.