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Flood Watches in Iowa, 2025

23 flood watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Flood Watches
23
Busiest month
July12 flood watches
Busiest day
June 25, 20254 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
Jan 31, 1:40 AM CSTFlood WatchDVNDes Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine and 3 more13 hr
Jun 25, 11:03 AM CDTFlood WatchARXAllamakee, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek12 hr
Jun 25, 11:08 AM CDTFlood WatchOAXHarrison, Monona20 hr
Jun 25, 11:13 AM CDTFlood WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Ida, O'Brien, Plymouth and 1 more20 hr
Jun 25, 11:28 AM CDTFlood WatchDMXCalhoun, Cerro Gordo, Crawford, Emmet, Hancock, Humboldt and 6 more19 hr
Jun 26, 8:10 AM CDTFlood WatchARXAllamakee, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek16 hr
Jul 10, 1:14 PM CDTFlood WatchOAXHarrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby18 hr
Jul 10, 1:17 PM CDTFlood WatchDMXAdair, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Calhoun and 26 more30 hr
Jul 10, 1:29 PM CDTFlood WatchFSDIda, Woodbury18 hr
Jul 10, 7:17 PM CDTFlood WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more30 hr
Jul 18, 12:59 PM CDTFlood WatchDVNBenton, Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa and 11 more47 hr
Jul 19, 2:48 PM CDTFlood WatchDMXAdair, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Calhoun and 27 more18 hr
Jul 25, 1:20 PM CDTFlood WatchDVNCedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson and 8 more24 hr
Jul 25, 1:39 PM CDTFlood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Dallas, Davis and 15 more19 hr
Jul 29, 2:29 PM CDTFlood WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 4 more11 hr
Jul 29, 2:39 PM CDTFlood WatchOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more14 hr
Jul 29, 3:08 PM CDTFlood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun and 36 more23 hr
Jul 30, 2:27 AM CDTFlood WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more11 hr
Aug 8, 2:07 PM CDTFlood WatchARXClayton, Fayette53 hr
Aug 8, 2:15 PM CDTFlood WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more53 hr
Aug 8, 3:18 PM CDTFlood WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 23 more45 hr
Aug 9, 2:16 AM CDTFlood WatchOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page34 hr
Aug 16, 9:33 PM CDTFlood WatchDVNDubuque, Jackson12 hr

By county

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

54 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. June 25, 20254flood watches
  2. July 10, 20253flood watches
  3. July 29, 20253flood watches
  4. August 8, 20253flood watches
  5. July 25, 20252flood watches
  6. January 31, 20251flood watches
  7. June 26, 20251flood watches
  8. July 11, 20251flood watches
  9. July 18, 20251flood watches
  10. July 19, 20251flood watches
  11. July 30, 20251flood watches
  12. August 9, 20251flood 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.