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Flash Flood Watches in Iowa, 2015

37 flash flood watches in 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Flash Flood Watches
37
Busiest month
June14 flash flood watches
Busiest day
June 6, 20153 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 1:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page17 hr
Jun 6, 3:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Ida, O'Brien, Plymouth and 2 more9 hr
Jun 6, 3:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAudubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford, Dallas and 11 more12 hr
Jun 6, 3:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXHarrison, Monona, Shelby10 hr
Jun 10, 1:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more32 hr
Jun 10, 2:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more38 hr
Jun 10, 2:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more19 hr
Jun 10, 10:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more13 hr
Jun 11, 10:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more18 hr
Jun 11, 11:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page7 hr
Jun 15, 7:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more13 hr
Jun 23, 3:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more42 hr
Jun 23, 3:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAdair, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 30 more38 hr
Jun 25, 3:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXFremont, Page23 hr
Jul 5, 9:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchFSDLyon, Osceola8 hr
Jul 11, 2:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNCedar, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson, Johnson and 7 more11 hr
Jul 15, 11:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Cass, Clarke and 18 more10 hr
Jul 15, 11:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page10 hr
Jul 16, 3:54 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNCedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson and 8 more21 hr
Jul 28, 3:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNBenton, Cedar, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson and 9 more12 hr
Jul 28, 3:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAppanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Jasper, Lucas and 14 more11 hr
Aug 8, 3:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNJefferson, Van Buren17 hr
Aug 8, 3:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Dallas, Davis and 14 more15 hr
Aug 16, 10:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchFSDDickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux9 hr
Aug 18, 3:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more9 hr
Aug 18, 4:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXCalhoun, Carroll, Crawford, Emmet, Hancock, Humboldt and 7 more9 hr
Aug 18, 4:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXMonona7 hr
Sep 6, 4:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 27 more28 hr
Sep 6, 4:24 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, Shelby24 hr
Sep 7, 3:24 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more28 hr
Sep 7, 4:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more22 hr
Sep 7, 4:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more30 hr
Sep 8, 2:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more7 hr
Sep 18, 3:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNCedar, Clinton, Jackson, Muscatine, Scott20 hr
Sep 23, 4:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchFSDCherokee, Ida, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury27 hr
Sep 23, 4:31 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more28 hr
Sep 23, 9:17 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford and 2 more19 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

59 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. June 6, 20153flash flood watches
  2. June 10, 20153flash flood watches
  3. June 11, 20153flash flood watches
  4. July 16, 20153flash flood watches
  5. August 18, 20153flash flood watches
  6. September 7, 20153flash flood watches
  7. September 23, 20153flash flood watches
  8. June 23, 20152flash flood watches
  9. July 28, 20152flash flood watches
  10. August 8, 20152flash flood watches
  11. September 6, 20152flash flood watches
  12. June 4, 20151flash flood watches

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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.