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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 11, 3:31 AM CDTFlood WatchOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more3 days
Mar 11, 2:58 PM CDTFlood WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more4 days
Mar 11, 3:13 PM CDTFlood WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more72 hr
Mar 11, 3:16 PM CDTFlood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more67 hr
Mar 11, 3:16 PM CDTFlood WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 11 more56 hr
Jun 18, 4:18 AM CDTFlood WatchOAXFremont, Mills16 hr
Sep 18, 3:36 PM CDTFlood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 12 more4 hr
Sep 18, 4:04 PM CDTFlood WatchOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Pottawattamie and 1 more21 hr
Oct 1, 8:35 PM CDTFlood WatchOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more9 hr
Dec 28, 9:33 AM CSTFlood WatchOAXHarrison, Monona10 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

55 more counties

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.