Alert archive / Iowa / High Wind Watches
High Wind Watches in Iowa, 2014
6 high wind watches in 2014. 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 in 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 6
- Busiest month
- January6 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- January 14, 20143 high wind 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 3:16 PM CST | High Wind Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 24 hr |
| Jan 14, 3:45 PM CST | High Wind Watch | OAX | Harrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 24 hr |
| Jan 14, 3:48 PM CST | High Wind Watch | DMX | Adair, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 19 more | 24 hr |
| Jan 24, 3:18 PM CST | High Wind Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Ida, Lyon, O'Brien, Plymouth and 2 more | 23 hr |
| Jan 25, 3:45 AM CST | High Wind Watch | OAX | Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 24 hr |
| Jan 25, 4:09 AM CST | High Wind Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 11 more | 11 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Buena Vista County2
- Cherokee County2
- Ida County2
- Lyon County2
- O'Brien County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Woodbury County2
- Harrison County2
- Monona County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Adair County2
- Audubon County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Crawford County2
- Dallas County2
- Greene County2
- Guthrie County2
- Madison County2
- Sac County2
- Warren County2
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Osceola County1
- Boone County1
- Emmet County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Polk County1
- Story County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Wright 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.