Alert archive / Iowa / High Wind Watches
High Wind Watches in Iowa, 2019
4 high wind watches in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 4
- Busiest month
- January2 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- January 26, 20192 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 26, 2:21 PM CST | High Wind Watch | FSD | Cherokee, Ida, Plymouth, Woodbury | 13 hr |
| Jan 26, 3:02 PM CST | High Wind Watch | OAX | Monona | 12 hr |
| Feb 22, 2:53 PM CST | High Wind Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 13 hr |
| Nov 25, 2:47 PM CST | High Wind Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 21 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County2
- Buchanan County2
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Delaware County2
- Des Moines County2
- Dubuque County2
- Henry County2
- Iowa County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Jones County2
- Keokuk County2
- Lee County2
- Linn County2
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Van Buren County2
- Washington County2
- Cherokee County1
- Ida County1
- Plymouth County1
- Woodbury County1
- Monona 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.