Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, May 2013
8 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 27, 20132 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 18, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Lyon, Mills, Monona, Montgomery and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 20, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler and 33 more | 5 hr |
| May 20, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Buchanan, Cedar, Chickasaw, Clayton, Clinton and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 23 more | 4 hr |
| May 27, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Decatur, Fremont, Page, Ringgold, Taylor | 7 hr |
| May 29, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan and 29 more | 7 hr |
| May 31, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Decatur County4
- Ringgold County4
- Fremont County3
- Page County3
- Clarke County3
- Dallas County3
- Jasper County3
- Lucas County3
- Madison County3
- Marion County3
- Marshall County3
- Polk County3
- Union County3
- Warren County3
- Wayne County3
- Allamakee County3
- Chickasaw County3
- Clayton County3
- Fayette County3
- Howard County3
- Winneshiek County3
- Harrison County2
- Mills County2
- Monona County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Appanoose County2
- Benton County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Boone County2
- Bremer County2
- Davis County2
- Grundy County2
- Hardin County2
- Iowa County2
- Johnson County2
- Linn County2
- Mahaska County2
- Monroe County2
41 more counties
- Poweshiek County2
- Story County2
- Tama County2
- Wapello County2
- Buchanan County2
- Delaware County2
- Floyd County2
- Mitchell County2
- Taylor County2
- Lyon County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
- Butler County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Jefferson County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Louisa County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Dubuque County1
- Jackson County1
- Jones County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Audubon County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Crawford County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Sac County1
- Webster 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.