Alert archive / Iowa / Flash Flood Watches / 2019
Flash Flood Watches in Iowa, May 2019
18 flash flood watches in May 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 18
- Busiest day
- May 18, 20193 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 1, 2:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott and 1 more | 19 hr |
| May 18, 2:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 24 hr |
| May 18, 3:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 24 more | 21 hr |
| May 18, 4:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 20 hr |
| May 19, 4:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Page | 63 hr |
| May 21, 3:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Cedar, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson, Johnson and 7 more | 19 hr |
| May 23, 4:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Montgomery, Page | 29 hr |
| May 24, 3:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 23 hr |
| May 24, 3:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur and 16 more | 23 hr |
| May 25, 3:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Montgomery, Page | 24 hr |
| May 25, 3:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa and 4 more | 27 hr |
| May 25, 4:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas and 8 more | 26 hr |
| May 26, 1:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 25 hr |
| May 26, 2:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Carroll, Cass and 13 more | 23 hr |
| May 28, 3:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 24 hr |
| May 28, 3:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Cass and 22 more | 24 hr |
| May 28, 3:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 25 hr |
| May 29, 3:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Jackson, Jones and 4 more | 12 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Des Moines County7
- Henry County7
- Lee County7
- Louisa County7
- Muscatine County7
- Scott County7
- Van Buren County6
- Fremont County6
- Page County6
- Cedar County5
- Jefferson County5
- Keokuk County5
- Washington County5
- Adams County5
- Appanoose County5
- Clarke County5
- Davis County5
- Decatur County5
- Lucas County5
- Monroe County5
- Ringgold County5
- Taylor County5
- Union County5
- Wapello County5
- Wayne County5
- Montgomery County5
- Clinton County4
- Iowa County4
- Jackson County4
- Johnson County4
- Jones County4
- Adair County4
- Madison County4
- Mahaska County4
- Marion County4
- Mills County4
- Benton County3
- Buchanan County3
- Delaware County3
- Dubuque County3
21 more counties
- Linn County3
- Audubon County3
- Cass County3
- Guthrie County3
- Jasper County3
- Marshall County3
- Polk County3
- Poweshiek County3
- Tama County3
- Warren County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Boone County2
- Dallas County2
- Story County2
- Shelby County2
- Black Hawk County1
- Grundy County1
- Harrison County1
- Monona County1
- Carroll County1
- Crawford County1
Nearby
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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.