Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, May 2000
10 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2000. 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 severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20003 severe thunderstorm watches
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 | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Ida and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun and 33 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clinton, Jackson, Scott | 5 hr |
| May 8, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Scott | 5 hr |
| May 11, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee and 24 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Cass and 29 more | 5 hr |
| May 29, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Harrison, Monona, Plymouth, Woodbury | 5 hr |
| May 30, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 29 more | 5 hr |
| May 30, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones, Louisa and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 33 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Buena Vista County4
- Scott County4
- Cherokee County3
- Ida County3
- Kossuth County3
- Monona County3
- Palo Alto County3
- Plymouth County3
- Adair County3
- Audubon County3
- Boone County3
- Cass County3
- Chickasaw County3
- Dallas County3
- Fremont County3
- Guthrie County3
- Harrison County3
- Mills County3
- Montgomery County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Shelby County3
- Clinton County3
- Jackson County3
- Lucas County3
- Wayne County3
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Emmet County2
- Lyon County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Sioux County2
- Woodbury County2
- Butler County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Crawford County2
- Floyd County2
59 more counties
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hancock County2
- Hardin County2
- Howard County2
- Humboldt County2
- Mitchell County2
- Sac County2
- Webster County2
- Winnebago County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Worth County2
- Wright County2
- Des Moines County2
- Bremer County2
- Clayton County2
- Fayette County2
- Adams County2
- Appanoose County2
- Clarke County2
- Davis County2
- Decatur County2
- Jasper County2
- Madison County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Monroe County2
- Page County2
- Polk County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Ringgold County2
- Story County2
- Tama County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Wapello County2
- Warren County2
- Cedar County2
- Dubuque County2
- Jones County2
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Allamakee County1
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Buchanan County1
- Delaware County1
- Grundy County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Linn County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington County1
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.