Alert archive / Iowa / Flood Watches
Flood Watches in Iowa, 2008
15 flood watches in 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 15
- Busiest month
- April4 flood watches
- Busiest day
- April 17, 20083 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 3:21 PM CST | Flood Watch | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Johnson and 6 more | 48 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:44 AM CST | Flood Watch | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Lee | 33 hr |
| Mar 17, 3:36 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa, Van Buren | 18 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:38 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more | 40 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:53 AM CDT | Flood Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette | 41 hr |
| Apr 17, 3:35 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 27 more | 39 hr |
| Apr 17, 3:57 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 13 more | 40 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:08 AM CDT | Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Montgomery, Page | 15 hr |
| Apr 24, 9:00 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 21 hr |
| May 10, 2:53 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 34 hr |
| May 10, 3:34 AM CDT | Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Ida, Lyon, Plymouth and 1 more | 17 hr |
| May 10, 4:08 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 20 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 12, 2:02 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ARX | Clayton, Fayette | 19 hr |
| Oct 22, 3:47 PM CDT | Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 6 hr |
| Oct 22, 3:49 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford and 6 more | 11 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cedar County4
- Clinton County4
- Delaware County4
- Dubuque County4
- Jackson County4
- Johnson County4
- Jones County4
- Linn County4
- Louisa County4
- Muscatine County4
- Scott County4
- Henry County4
- Washington County3
- Des Moines County3
- Lee County3
- Van Buren County3
- Benton County3
- Buchanan County3
- Iowa County3
- Clayton County3
- Fayette County3
- Adair County3
- Audubon County3
- Cass County3
- Guthrie County3
- Allamakee County2
- Adams County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Boone County2
- Dallas County2
- Decatur County2
- Grundy County2
- Hardin County2
- Jasper County2
- Madison County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Polk County2
- Poweshiek County2
42 more counties
- Ringgold County2
- Story County2
- Tama County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Warren County2
- Jefferson County2
- Keokuk County2
- Fremont County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Carroll County2
- Crawford County2
- Sac County2
- Appanoose County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Clarke County1
- Davis County1
- Lucas County1
- Monroe County1
- Wapello County1
- Wayne County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Calhoun County1
- Greene County1
- Hamilton County1
- Webster County1
- Mills County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby 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.