Alert archive / Iowa / Flood Watches
Flood Watches in Iowa, 2021
3 flood watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 3
- Busiest month
- August2 flood watches
- Busiest day
- August 26, 20212 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 2:59 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Appanoose, Davis, Monroe, Wapello, Wayne | 13 min |
| Aug 26, 3:03 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Emmet and 13 more | 16 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:45 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 13 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Appanoose County1
- Davis County1
- Monroe County1
- Wapello County1
- Wayne County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Allamakee County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek 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. Rebuilt daily.