Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, May 2005
5 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20053 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, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux | 6 hr |
| May 8, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audubon, Carroll, Crawford, Fremont, Harrison, Mills and 5 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Emmet, Franklin, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin and 7 more | 8 hr |
| May 18, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux | 6 hr |
| May 19, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jackson and 10 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lyon County2
- Sioux County2
- Emmet County2
- Plymouth County1
- Audubon County1
- Carroll County1
- Crawford County1
- Fremont County1
- Harrison County1
- Mills County1
- Monona County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby County1
- Calhoun County1
- Franklin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Wright County1
- Dickinson County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Lee 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.