Alert archive / Iowa / Flood Watches
Flood Watches in Iowa, 2018
7 flood watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 7
- Busiest month
- October4 flood watches
- Busiest day
- October 7, 20182 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 20, 9:37 AM CST | Flood Watch | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry, Jackson and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 3:20 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Winneshiek | 21 hr |
| Oct 6, 3:30 PM CDT | Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 3 days |
| Oct 7, 3:37 PM CDT | Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 54 hr |
| Oct 7, 3:52 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 60 hr |
| Oct 8, 3:13 AM CDT | Flood Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 56 hr |
| Dec 26, 12:05 PM CST | Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 31 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Allamakee County2
- Clayton County2
- Fayette County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Ida County2
- Lyon County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Woodbury County2
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Des Moines County1
- Dubuque County1
- Henry County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Linn County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington County1
- Fremont County1
- Harrison County1
- Mills County1
- Monona County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby County1
55 more counties
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Audubon County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Clarke County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Jasper County1
- Kossuth County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold County1
- Sac County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.