Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, May 2014
7 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2014. 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- May 12, 20143 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, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Decatur, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page and 3 more | 8 hr |
| May 11, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 7 hr |
| May 11, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 6 hr |
| May 12, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton and 27 more | 7 hr |
| May 12, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clayton | 7 hr |
| May 20, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 45 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fremont County4
- Mills County4
- Montgomery County4
- Page County4
- Pottawattamie County2
- Adams County2
- Decatur County2
- Ringgold County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Appanoose County2
- Benton County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Buchanan County2
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Davis County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Iowa County2
- Jackson County2
- Jasper County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Jones County2
- Keokuk County2
- Linn County2
- Louisa County2
- Lucas County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Muscatine County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Scott County2
- Tama County2
- Wapello County2
- Washington County2
- Wayne County2
- Harrison County1
23 more counties
- Shelby County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Lee County1
- Van Buren County1
- Clayton County1
- Adair County1
- Audubon County1
- Boone County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Clarke County1
- Dallas County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Madison County1
- Marshall County1
- Polk County1
- Story County1
- Warren 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.