Alert archive / Iowa / Polk County / 2024

Weather alerts in Polk County, Iowa, May 2024

49 weather alerts in May 2024, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Alerts
49
Warnings
28
Watches
8
Advisories
1
Busiest day
May 21, 202423 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 3, 4:10 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX5 hr
May 6, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
May 6, 9:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC119 min
May 7, 1:21 AM CDTTornado WarningDMX39 min
May 7, 1:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX64 min
May 7, 7:37 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningDMX59 hr
May 7, 7:37 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningDMX32 hr
May 7, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX27 min
May 8, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX50 min
May 20, 1:50 PM CDTFlood WatchDMX29 hr
May 21, 1:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX40 min
May 21, 4:12 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDMX33 min
May 21, 4:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDMX7 hr
May 21, 5:51 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
May 21, 6:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
May 21, 8:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDMX64 min
May 21, 9:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX64 min
May 21, 9:29 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
May 21, 11:14 AM CDTRiver Flood WatchDMX4 days
May 21, 11:14 AM CDTRiver Flood WatchDMX5 days
May 21, 11:16 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningDMX24 hr
May 21, 12:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC118 min
May 21, 1:14 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPC8 hr
May 21, 3:20 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningDMX7 hr
May 21, 3:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC85 min
May 21, 3:26 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningDMX4 days
May 21, 3:26 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningDMX4 days
May 21, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX64 min
May 21, 4:19 PM CDTTornado WarningDMX41 min
May 21, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDMX45 min
May 21, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX47 min
May 21, 4:48 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDMX31 min
May 21, 5:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
May 24, 1:15 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 24, 2:25 AM CDTFlood WatchDMX14 hr
May 24, 2:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
May 24, 3:54 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 24, 4:28 AM CDTTornado WarningDMX32 min
May 24, 4:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX50 min
May 24, 4:41 AM CDTTornado WarningDMX34 min
May 24, 4:46 AM CDTTornado WarningDMX44 min
May 24, 4:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDMX49 min
May 24, 5:04 AM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMX41 min
May 24, 5:15 AM CDTTornado WarningDMX23 min
May 24, 5:17 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC118 min
May 24, 5:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX57 min
May 24, 11:00 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningDMX24 hr
May 26, 12:18 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDMX27 min
May 27, 1:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

ProductAlerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning11
Tornado Warning9
Severe Thunderstorm Watch2
Tornado Watch2
Mesoscale Discussion10
Special Weather Statement2
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning1
Flash Flood Warning1
River Flood Warning6
Flood Watch2
River Flood Watch2
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory1

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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.