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Flood Watches in Iowa, 2022
13 flood watches in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 13
- Busiest month
- July5 flood watches
- Busiest day
- July 6, 20222 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 3:07 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more | 12 hr |
| Jul 5, 6:17 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:57 PM CDT | Flood Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 18 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:59 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Carroll, Cass and 16 more | 18 hr |
| Jul 6, 8:02 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Van Buren | 33 hr |
| Jul 25, 2:49 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DVN | Lee | 24 hr |
| Aug 6, 2:39 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 37 hr |
| Aug 6, 2:59 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Winnebago and 1 more | 19 hr |
| Aug 7, 2:20 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson and 2 more | 29 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:11 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 14 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:22 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Butler, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Hancock, Winnebago, Worth and 1 more | 14 hr |
| Sep 18, 11:31 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DMX | Davis, Wapello | 15 hr |
| Sep 18, 11:31 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DVN | Jefferson, Lee, Van Buren | 16 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Allamakee County3
- Chickasaw County3
- Floyd County3
- Howard County3
- Mitchell County3
- Winneshiek County3
- Lee County3
- Benton County2
- Buchanan County2
- Clinton County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Jackson County2
- Jones County2
- Linn County2
- Clayton County2
- Fayette County2
- Davis County2
- Wapello County2
- Jefferson County2
- Van Buren County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Hancock County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Cedar County1
- Iowa County1
- Johnson County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Fremont County1
- Harrison County1
- Mills County1
- Monona County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
26 more counties
- Appanoose County1
- Audubon County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Clarke County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Decatur County1
- Guthrie County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Ringgold County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Emmet County1
- Kossuth County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Butler County1
- Franklin County1
- Wright 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.