Alert archive / Iowa / Flash Flood Watches / 2016
Flash Flood Watches in Iowa, August 2016
10 flash flood watches in August 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 August 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- August 11, 20164 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 3:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Cass, Clarke and 11 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 11, 3:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 13 more | 30 hr |
| Aug 11, 3:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 27 hr |
| Aug 11, 4:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 18 hr |
| Aug 11, 4:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Aug 11, 9:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 4 hr |
| Aug 24, 3:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas and 8 more | 24 hr |
| Aug 24, 4:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Page | 16 hr |
| Aug 24, 4:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Cedar, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk and 6 more | 23 hr |
| Aug 29, 2:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 28 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County3
- Appanoose County3
- Clarke County3
- Davis County3
- Decatur County3
- Lucas County3
- Monroe County3
- Ringgold County3
- Taylor County3
- Union County3
- Wayne County3
- Fremont County3
- Page County3
- Adair County2
- Audubon County2
- Cass County2
- Guthrie County2
- Madison County2
- Warren County2
- Cedar County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Keokuk County2
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Van Buren County2
- Washington County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Wapello County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Clinton County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
56 more counties
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jones County1
- Linn County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Jasper County1
- Kossuth County1
- Marshall County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Sac County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
- Allamakee County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Des Moines County1
- Lee 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.