Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, May 2006
6 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2006. 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 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 24, 20062 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 8, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 33 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Winneshiek | 6 hr |
| May 27, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Jackson, Lee, Louisa and 3 more | 5 hr |
| May 29, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw and 19 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Black Hawk County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Calhoun County2
- Franklin County2
- Fremont County2
- Grundy County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Harrison County2
- Humboldt County2
- Ida County2
- Mills County2
- Monona County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Webster County2
- Woodbury County2
- Wright County2
- Fayette County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Audubon County1
- Boone County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Madison County1
- Marshall County1
- Polk County1
- Sac County1
- Story County1
- Taylor County1
32 more counties
- Union County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Allamakee County1
- Clayton County1
- Clinton County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Jackson County1
- Lee County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Emmet County1
- Floyd County1
- Hancock County1
- Howard County1
- Kossuth County1
- Mitchell County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth 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.