Alert archive / Iowa / Flood Watches
Flood Watches in Iowa, 2019
10 flood watches in 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 flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 10
- Busiest month
- March5 flood watches
- Busiest day
- March 11, 20195 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 3:31 AM CDT | Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 3 days |
| Mar 11, 2:58 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 4 days |
| Mar 11, 3:13 PM CDT | Flood Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 72 hr |
| Mar 11, 3:16 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 67 hr |
| Mar 11, 3:16 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 11 more | 56 hr |
| Jun 18, 4:18 AM CDT | Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Mills | 16 hr |
| Sep 18, 3:36 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 12 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 18, 4:04 PM CDT | Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 21 hr |
| Oct 1, 8:35 PM CDT | Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 28, 9:33 AM CST | Flood Watch | OAX | Harrison, Monona | 10 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fremont County4
- Harrison County4
- Mills County4
- Monona County3
- Montgomery County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Shelby County3
- Page County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Audubon County2
- Boone County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Crawford County2
- Dallas County2
- Greene County2
- Guthrie County2
- Hamilton County2
- Madison County2
- Polk County2
- Sac County2
- Story County2
- Warren County2
- Webster County2
- Allamakee County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
55 more counties
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
- Appanoose County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Clarke County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Grundy County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Jasper County1
- Kossuth County1
- Lucas County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold County1
- Tama County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Wapello County1
- Wayne County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Linn County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington 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.