Alert archive / Iowa / Flood Watches
Flood Watches in Iowa, 2007
15 flood watches in 2007. 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 2007. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 15
- Busiest month
- March6 flood watches
- Busiest day
- March 29, 20072 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 11:34 AM CST | Flood Watch | DVN | Cedar, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson, Johnson and 7 more | 70 hr |
| Feb 27, 2:51 PM CST | Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 46 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:35 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:33 AM CDT | Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Woodbury | 13 hr |
| Mar 29, 4:04 AM CDT | Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 29, 3:45 PM CDT | Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 59 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:32 PM CDT | Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:37 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 29 more | 20 hr |
| Apr 24, 11:53 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 40 more | 54 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:23 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry, Iowa and 12 more | 11 hr |
| May 4, 3:48 PM CDT | Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 58 hr |
| May 6, 11:36 PM CDT | Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 16 hr |
| May 29, 3:42 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 25 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 14, 3:41 PM CDT | Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien | 14 hr |
| Oct 16, 3:58 PM CDT | Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 36 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Buena Vista County5
- Cherokee County5
- Clay County5
- Dickinson County5
- Ida County5
- Adair County4
- Adams County4
- Audubon County4
- Boone County4
- Calhoun County4
- Carroll County4
- Cass County4
- Cerro Gordo County4
- Clarke County4
- Crawford County4
- Dallas County4
- Decatur County4
- Franklin County4
- Greene County4
- Guthrie County4
- Hamilton County4
- Hancock County4
- Hardin County4
- Humboldt County4
- Madison County4
- Polk County4
- Ringgold County4
- Story County4
- Taylor County4
- Union County4
- Warren County4
- Webster County4
- Wright County4
- Woodbury County4
- O'Brien County4
- Cedar County3
- Des Moines County3
- Henry County3
- Iowa County3
- Jefferson County3
51 more counties
- Johnson County3
- Keokuk County3
- Lee County3
- Louisa County3
- Muscatine County3
- Scott County3
- Van Buren County3
- Washington County3
- Kossuth County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Sac County3
- Winnebago County3
- Worth County3
- Lyon County3
- Osceola County3
- Plymouth County3
- Sioux County3
- Fremont County3
- Mills County3
- Montgomery County3
- Page County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Shelby County3
- Clinton County2
- Dubuque County2
- Jackson County2
- Jones County2
- Linn County2
- Appanoose County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Davis County2
- Emmet County2
- Grundy County2
- Jasper County2
- Lucas County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Monroe County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Tama County2
- Wapello County2
- Wayne County2
- Harrison County2
- Monona County2
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Delaware 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.