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Flash Flood Watches in Iowa, 2016

42 flash flood watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Flash Flood Watches
42
Busiest month
September12 flash flood watches
Busiest day
July 17, 20164 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
May 26, 1:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie14 hr
May 27, 7:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis and 12 more8 hr
May 27, 8:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie4 hr
Jun 14, 10:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchFSDClay, Dickinson, O'Brien, Osceola6 hr
Jun 14, 10:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more12 hr
Jun 14, 10:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXBremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin, Hancock and 5 more10 hr
Jun 21, 2:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 10 more19 hr
Jun 21, 3:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin and 9 more17 hr
Jun 21, 3:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchARXChickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell17 hr
Jul 1, 3:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXFremont, Page34 hr
Jul 2, 3:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNDes Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Van Buren19 hr
Jul 2, 3:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAdams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas and 6 more18 hr
Jul 16, 9:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin and 12 more9 hr
Jul 16, 9:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchFSDClay, Dickinson, Osceola6 hr
Jul 17, 12:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more6 hr
Jul 17, 1:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNBuchanan, Delaware, Dubuque6 hr
Jul 18, 1:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 21 more7 hr
Jul 18, 2:23 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more7 hr
Jul 19, 3:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAppanoose, Boone, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Clarke, Dallas and 18 more24 hr
Jul 19, 4:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more24 hr
Aug 2, 3:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Cass, Clarke and 11 more8 hr
Aug 11, 3:08 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 13 more30 hr
Aug 11, 3:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more27 hr
Aug 11, 4:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more18 hr
Aug 11, 4:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more24 hr
Aug 11, 9:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie4 hr
Aug 24, 3:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAdams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas and 8 more24 hr
Aug 24, 4:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXFremont, Page16 hr
Aug 24, 4:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNCedar, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk and 6 more23 hr
Aug 29, 2:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie28 hr
Sep 6, 3:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more39 hr
Sep 6, 3:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXBlack Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet and 21 more31 hr
Sep 9, 11:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXBremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Hancock, Winnebago and 1 more6 hr
Sep 9, 11:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more7 hr
Sep 15, 3:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 32 more13 hr
Sep 15, 3:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXHarrison, Monona, Shelby12 hr
Sep 20, 10:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more67 hr
Sep 20, 2:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more44 hr
Sep 20, 3:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXBlack Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 21 more69 hr
Sep 22, 8:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 1 more13 hr
Sep 24, 2:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more17 hr
Sep 24, 3:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMXBremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Hancock, Winnebago and 2 more15 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. July 17, 20164flash flood watches
  2. August 11, 20164flash flood watches
  3. June 14, 20163flash flood watches
  4. June 21, 20163flash flood watches
  5. August 24, 20163flash flood watches
  6. September 20, 20163flash flood watches
  7. May 28, 20162flash flood watches
  8. July 2, 20162flash flood watches
  9. July 18, 20162flash flood watches
  10. July 19, 20162flash flood watches
  11. September 6, 20162flash flood watches
  12. September 9, 20162flash 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. Rebuilt daily.