Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, August 2005
6 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2005. 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 August 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- August 4, 20052 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Kossuth, Lyon and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 3, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Kossuth, Lyon and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 9, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 9, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler and 22 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 10, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 11, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Benton, Boone, Buchanan and 39 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County3
- Clay County3
- Dickinson County3
- Emmet County3
- Kossuth County3
- Lyon County3
- O'Brien County3
- Osceola County3
- Palo Alto County3
- Plymouth County3
- Sioux County3
- Carroll County3
- Harrison County3
- Shelby County3
- Crawford County2
- Monona County2
- Audubon County2
- Boone County2
- Dallas County2
- Greene County2
- Grundy County2
- Guthrie County2
- Hardin County2
- Marshall County2
- Polk County2
- Story County2
- Buena Vista County1
- Calhoun County1
- Hancock County1
- Humboldt County1
- Ida County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Winnebago County1
- Woodbury County1
- Worth County1
- Allamakee County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
50 more counties
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Howard County1
- Webster County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Wright County1
- Fremont County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Cass County1
- Cedar County1
- Clarke County1
- Clinton County1
- Delaware County1
- Des Moines County1
- Dubuque County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Linn County1
- Louisa County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Muscatine County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Scott County1
- Tama County1
- Union County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Washington County1
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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.