High Wind Watches in Iowa
53 high wind watches since 1986. 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 high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 53
- Busiest year
- 20269 high wind watches
- Average year
- 4over 13 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Monona County12
- Woodbury County12
- Calhoun County12
- Greene County12
- Plymouth County11
- Sioux County11
- Boone County11
- Carroll County11
- Crawford County11
- Dallas County11
- Hamilton County11
- Hancock County11
- Humboldt County11
- Sac County11
- Story County11
- Warren County11
- Webster County11
- Wright County11
- Ida County10
- Pottawattamie County10
- Lyon County10
- Black Hawk County10
- Bremer County10
- Butler County10
- Cerro Gordo County10
- Emmet County10
- Franklin County10
- Grundy County10
- Guthrie County10
- Hardin County10
- Kossuth County10
- Marshall County10
- Palo Alto County10
- Pocahontas County10
- Polk County10
- Tama County10
- Winnebago County10
- Worth County10
- Harrison County9
- Mills County9
59 more counties
- Adair County9
- Cass County9
- Cherokee County9
- Jasper County9
- Madison County9
- Mahaska County9
- Marion County9
- O'Brien County9
- Poweshiek County9
- Wapello County9
- Montgomery County8
- Shelby County8
- Adams County8
- Audubon County8
- Buena Vista County8
- Clarke County8
- Clay County8
- Dickinson County8
- Lucas County8
- Monroe County8
- Osceola County8
- Union County8
- Fremont County7
- Cedar County7
- Clinton County7
- Iowa County7
- Johnson County7
- Muscatine County7
- Scott County7
- Benton County7
- Buchanan County7
- Delaware County7
- Dubuque County7
- Linn County7
- Page County6
- Des Moines County6
- Henry County6
- Jefferson County6
- Keokuk County6
- Louisa County6
- Van Buren County6
- Washington County6
- Appanoose County6
- Davis County6
- Decatur County6
- Ringgold County6
- Taylor County6
- Wayne County6
- Jackson County6
- Jones County6
- Lee County5
- Chickasaw County5
- Floyd County5
- Howard County5
- Mitchell County5
- Allamakee County4
- Clayton County4
- Fayette County4
- Winneshiek County4
The latest high wind watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 3:09 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 14, 2:00 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:44 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 12, 3:48 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Cass, Clarke, Lucas, Madison and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 11, 9:54 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | OAX | Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie | 13 hr |
| Mar 11, 12:53 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Linn | 14 hr |
| Mar 11, 11:23 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | DMX | Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 21 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 11, 11:06 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 10, 11:57 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 21 hr |
Nearby
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.