Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2019
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, May 2019
11 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 28, 20194 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 5, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 6 hr |
| May 16, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Carroll and 34 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 4:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Fremont and 13 more | 4 hr |
| May 25, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 2:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 4 hr |
| May 27, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 28, 6:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Dallas and 17 more | 5 hr |
| May 28, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Fremont and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 28, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Johnson, Lee, Louisa and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 28, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Decatur, Ringgold, Taylor, Wayne | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fremont County5
- Decatur County5
- Page County5
- Ringgold County5
- Taylor County5
- Wayne County5
- Madison County4
- Mahaska County4
- Marion County4
- Warren County4
- Adams County4
- Appanoose County4
- Clarke County4
- Davis County4
- Lucas County4
- Monroe County4
- Montgomery County4
- Union County4
- Wapello County4
- Harrison County3
- Mills County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Shelby County3
- Jasper County3
- Louisa County3
- Muscatine County3
- Poweshiek County3
- Scott County3
- Washington County3
- Adair County2
- Cass County2
- Dallas County2
- Guthrie County2
- Johnson County2
- Keokuk County2
- Monona County2
- Polk County2
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
21 more counties
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.