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Flood Watches in Iowa, 2024

30 flood watches in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Flood Watches
30
Busiest month
May11 flood watches
Busiest day
April 27, 20243 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
Apr 27, 3:29 AM CDTFlood WatchOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more18 hr
Apr 27, 1:12 PM CDTFlood WatchDVNDes Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Van Buren13 hr
Apr 27, 1:17 PM CDTFlood WatchDMXAdams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis, Decatur and 7 more12 hr
May 2, 2:58 PM CDTFlood WatchDMXAppanoose, Davis, Decatur, Lucas, Mahaska, Marion and 3 more9 hr
May 2, 2:58 PM CDTFlood WatchDVNHenry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Van Buren, Washington9 hr
May 20, 1:45 PM CDTFlood WatchOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more25 hr
May 20, 1:50 PM CDTFlood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 37 more29 hr
May 20, 1:52 PM CDTFlood WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 1 more27 hr
May 21, 1:31 AM CDTFlood WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more19 hr
May 21, 1:45 AM CDTFlood WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Delaware, Iowa, Johnson, Linn19 hr
May 23, 3:30 PM CDTFlood WatchOAXHarrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby12 hr
May 24, 2:25 AM CDTFlood WatchDMXAdair, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler and 30 more14 hr
May 24, 2:38 AM CDTFlood WatchARXChickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd13 hr
May 24, 2:38 AM CDTFlood WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 10 more13 hr
Jun 20, 3:26 AM CDTFlood WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien and 3 more64 hr
Jun 20, 2:34 PM CDTFlood WatchDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Emmet and 14 more52 hr
Jun 20, 3:07 PM CDTFlood WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more52 hr
Jun 21, 8:39 PM CDTFlood WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 1 more25 hr
Jun 25, 11:10 AM CDTFlood WatchDVNCedar, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson, Johnson and 7 more15 hr
Jul 1, 12:04 PM CDTFlood WatchOAXHarrison, Mills, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby17 hr
Jul 1, 12:08 PM CDTFlood WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Ida, O'Brien, Plymouth and 2 more15 hr
Jul 1, 1:18 PM CDTFlood WatchDMXAdair, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 21 more22 hr
Jul 2, 2:04 AM CDTFlood WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more23 hr
Jul 2, 2:08 AM CDTFlood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 37 more17 hr
Jul 2, 3:01 AM CDTFlood WatchARXClayton, Fayette20 hr
Jul 28, 11:08 PM CDTFlood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Cass, Clarke and 18 more5 hr
Jul 28, 11:12 PM CDTFlood WatchDVNCedar, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson, Johnson and 7 more8 hr
Jul 30, 2:15 PM CDTFlood WatchDVNCedar, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson, Johnson and 7 more44 hr
Jul 30, 3:27 PM CDTFlood WatchDMXBoone, Calhoun, Carroll, Dallas, Davis, Greene and 14 more16 hr
Aug 14, 5:10 PM CDTFlood WatchOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie9 hr

By county

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

59 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 27, 20243flood watches
  2. May 20, 20243flood watches
  3. May 24, 20243flood watches
  4. June 20, 20243flood watches
  5. July 1, 20243flood watches
  6. July 2, 20243flood watches
  7. May 2, 20242flood watches
  8. May 21, 20242flood watches
  9. July 29, 20242flood watches
  10. July 30, 20242flood watches
  11. May 23, 20241flood watches
  12. June 22, 20241flood watches

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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.