Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, May 2001
10 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2001. 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 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 10, 20016 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 1, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Crawford, Dallas and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 1, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allamakee, Audubon, Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista and 42 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Butler and 40 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Cass and 29 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Winneshiek | 5 hr |
| May 10, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allamakee, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 47 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 46 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dubuque | 5 hr |
| May 10, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Cedar, Clarke, Clinton, Davis, Decatur and 20 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Audubon County6
- Boone County6
- Dallas County6
- Greene County6
- Guthrie County6
- Story County6
- Carroll County5
- Cass County5
- Mills County5
- Montgomery County5
- Pottawattamie County5
- Shelby County5
- Adair County5
- Harrison County4
- Calhoun County4
- Fremont County4
- Grundy County4
- Hamilton County4
- Hardin County4
- Webster County4
- Winneshiek County4
- Mahaska County4
- Marion County4
- Crawford County3
- Monona County3
- Allamakee County3
- Butler County3
- Cerro Gordo County3
- Chickasaw County3
- Emmet County3
- Fayette County3
- Floyd County3
- Franklin County3
- Hancock County3
- Howard County3
- Humboldt County3
- Kossuth County3
- Mitchell County3
- Palo Alto County3
- Pocahontas County3
53 more counties
- Winnebago County3
- Worth County3
- Wright County3
- Adams County3
- Page County3
- Clarke County3
- Decatur County3
- Jasper County3
- Lucas County3
- Madison County3
- Marshall County3
- Monroe County3
- Polk County3
- Poweshiek County3
- Ringgold County3
- Tama County3
- Taylor County3
- Union County3
- Warren County3
- Wayne County3
- Johnson County3
- Keokuk County3
- Louisa County3
- Washington County3
- Bremer County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Ida County2
- Sac County2
- Woodbury County2
- Appanoose County2
- Clayton County2
- Benton County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Buchanan County2
- Delaware County2
- Iowa County2
- Linn County2
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Des Moines County2
- Dubuque County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Wapello County2
- Jackson County1
- Jones County1
- Davis County1
- Lee County1
- Van Buren 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.