Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, May 2016
5 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 9, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 11, 3:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Cass, Clarke, Decatur, Fremont and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Ida, Monona, O'Brien, Plymouth, Sioux and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 28, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 36 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ringgold County3
- Taylor County3
- Union County3
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Cass County2
- Fremont County2
- Mills County2
- Monona County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Clarke County2
- Decatur County2
- Davis County2
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Keokuk County2
- Lee County2
- Louisa County2
- Mahaska County2
- Van Buren County2
- Wapello County2
- Washington County2
- Audubon County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Crawford County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Harrison County1
- Sac County1
- Shelby County1
- Appanoose County1
- Lucas County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
37 more counties
- Cherokee County1
- Ida County1
- O'Brien County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
- Allamakee County1
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Buchanan County1
- Butler County1
- Cedar County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Clinton County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Grundy County1
- Hancock County1
- Howard County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Linn County1
- Mitchell County1
- Muscatine County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Scott County1
- Tama County1
- Winnebago County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Worth County1
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20152017
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.