Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, August 2016
5 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- August 4, 20161 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 4, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Louisa | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 51 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 18, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lyon, Osceola | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Allamakee County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Clayton County2
- Fayette County2
- Floyd County2
- Franklin County2
- Grundy County2
- Hardin County2
- Howard County2
- Marshall County2
- Mitchell County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Tama County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Linn County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Washington County1
- Des Moines County1
- Louisa County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Audubon County1
- Boone County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Calhoun County1
44 more counties
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clarke County1
- Clay County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Decatur County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Harrison County1
- Humboldt County1
- Ida County1
- Jasper County1
- Kossuth County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Monona County1
- Monroe County1
- O'Brien County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Plymouth County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Polk County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Ringgold County1
- Sac County1
- Shelby County1
- Sioux County1
- Story County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Webster County1
- Woodbury County1
- Wright County1
- Lyon County1
- Osceola 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.