Alert archive / Iowa / Flash Flood Watches / 2013
Flash Flood Watches in Iowa, May 2013
16 flash flood watches in May 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 16
- Busiest day
- May 28, 20134 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 19, 3:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ARX | Mitchell | 35 hr |
| May 25, 3:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Harrison, Monona, Shelby | 12 hr |
| May 25, 3:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford and 17 more | 21 hr |
| May 26, 3:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 56 hr |
| May 26, 4:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 26 hr |
| May 26, 3:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 41 hr |
| May 26, 8:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 37 hr |
| May 27, 6:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 22 hr |
| May 28, 10:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson and 8 more | 19 hr |
| May 28, 2:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Jasper and 12 more | 13 hr |
| May 28, 3:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 7 hr |
| May 28, 3:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 37 hr |
| May 29, 10:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 28 hr |
| May 29, 11:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 56 hr |
| May 29, 11:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 32 hr |
| May 29, 3:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 54 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jasper County4
- Mahaska County4
- Marion County4
- Poweshiek County4
- Wapello County4
- Mitchell County3
- Audubon County3
- Black Hawk County3
- Boone County3
- Calhoun County3
- Carroll County3
- Crawford County3
- Dallas County3
- Greene County3
- Grundy County3
- Guthrie County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hardin County3
- Marshall County3
- Polk County3
- Sac County3
- Story County3
- Tama County3
- Webster County3
- 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
- Buena Vista County3
- Cherokee County3
59 more counties
- Clay County3
- Dickinson County3
- Ida County3
- Lyon County3
- O'Brien County3
- Osceola County3
- Plymouth County3
- Sioux County3
- Woodbury County3
- Adams County3
- Appanoose County3
- Clarke County3
- Davis County3
- Decatur County3
- Lucas County3
- Madison County3
- Monroe County3
- Ringgold County3
- Taylor County3
- Union County3
- Warren County3
- Wayne County3
- Harrison County2
- Monona County2
- Shelby County2
- Benton County2
- Buchanan County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Jackson County2
- Jones County2
- Linn County2
- Adair County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Cass County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Emmet County2
- Franklin County2
- Hancock County2
- Humboldt County2
- Kossuth County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Wright County2
- Allamakee County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Clayton County2
- Fayette County2
- Floyd County2
- Howard County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Fremont County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie 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.