Alert archive / Iowa / Flash Flood Watches / 2010
Flash Flood Watches in Iowa, May 2010
5 flash flood watches in May 2010. 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 2010. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 10, 20102 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, 3:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson and 8 more | 13 hr |
| May 10, 3:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas, Mahaska and 9 more | 12 hr |
| May 12, 3:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 32 hr |
| May 12, 4:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Jasper, Lucas and 15 more | 26 hr |
| May 25, 3:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 24 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cedar County3
- Clinton County3
- Des Moines County3
- Henry County3
- Iowa County3
- Jefferson County3
- Johnson County3
- Keokuk County3
- Lee County3
- Louisa County3
- Muscatine County3
- Scott County3
- Van Buren County3
- Washington County3
- Appanoose County2
- Clarke County2
- Davis County2
- Decatur County2
- Lucas County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Ringgold County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Wapello County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Benton County2
- Buchanan County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Jackson County2
- Jones County2
- Linn County2
- Jasper County1
- Madison County1
- Marshall County1
- Polk County1
2 more counties
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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.