Alert archive / Iowa / Flood Watches
Flood Watches in Iowa, 2006
9 flood watches in 2006. 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 flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- April8 flood watches
- Busiest day
- April 6, 20064 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 3:55 PM CST | Flood Watch | DMX | Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun and 21 more | 23 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:39 AM CDT | Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 4 more | 25 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:41 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more | 24 hr |
| Apr 6, 4:12 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 21 more | 29 hr |
| Apr 6, 12:11 PM CDT | Flood Watch | OAX | Monona | 15 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:13 PM CDT | Flood Watch | FSD | Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:44 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin and 7 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:54 AM CDT | Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 60 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:51 PM CDT | Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 11 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County4
- Dickinson County4
- O'Brien County4
- Osceola County4
- Sioux County4
- Black Hawk County3
- Bremer County3
- Butler County3
- Cerro Gordo County3
- Emmet County3
- Franklin County3
- Grundy County3
- Hancock County3
- Kossuth County3
- Palo Alto County3
- Winnebago County3
- Worth County3
- Wright County3
- Buena Vista County3
- Cherokee County3
- Ida County3
- Plymouth County3
- Woodbury County3
- Lyon County3
- Boone County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Crawford County2
- Greene County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Humboldt County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Sac County2
- Story County2
- Webster County2
- Audubon County1
- Guthrie County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.