Alert archive / Iowa / High Wind Watches
High Wind Watches in Iowa, 2016
3 high wind watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 3
- Busiest month
- March3 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- March 15, 20163 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 3:32 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 15, 3:37 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | DMX | Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo and 22 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 15, 3:48 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more | 12 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Allamakee County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Dallas County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Jasper County1
- Kossuth County1
- Marshall County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20152017
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.