Alert archive / Iowa / Polk County / 2019
Weather alerts in Polk County, Iowa, May 2019
39 weather alerts in May 2019, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
- Alerts
- 39
- Warnings
- 14
- Watches
- 14
- Advisories
- 2
- Busiest day
- May 28, 201910 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 1:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 7, 10:56 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | DMX | 23 hr |
| May 13, 4:45 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DMX | 4 hr |
| May 15, 3:38 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DMX | 5 hr |
| May 16, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | 44 min |
| May 16, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | 44 min |
| May 16, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 16, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | 44 min |
| May 16, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | 53 min |
| May 16, 9:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DMX | 58 min |
| May 16, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | 60 min |
| May 16, 11:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 18, 3:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | 21 hr |
| May 18, 10:11 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | DMX | 7 days |
| May 18, 10:11 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | DMX | 7 days |
| May 21, 11:35 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | DMX | 20 hr |
| May 23, 12:59 PM CDT | River Flood Watch | DMX | 15 hr |
| May 23, 12:59 PM CDT | River Flood Watch | DMX | 18 hr |
| May 24, 3:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | 23 hr |
| May 24, 4:27 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | 10 days |
| May 24, 6:26 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | 8 days |
| May 24, 7:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | 38 min |
| May 24, 7:21 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | 13 hr |
| May 24, 9:50 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | 24 hr |
| May 24, 3:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 65 min |
| May 27, 6:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DMX | 30 min |
| May 27, 6:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | 26 min |
| May 27, 10:30 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | DMX | 7 days |
| May 27, 10:30 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | DMX | 5 days |
| May 28, 3:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | 24 hr |
| May 28, 4:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 28, 6:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 28, 6:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | 20 min |
| May 28, 7:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 28, 9:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 93 min |
| May 28, 10:55 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | DMX | 4 hr |
| May 28, 2:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| May 28, 3:02 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | 15 hr |
| May 28, 3:02 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DMX | 3 days |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 8 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 7 |
| Special Weather Statement | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| River Flood Warning | 6 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 3 |
| River Flood Watch | 9 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 2 |
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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.