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Tornado Watches in Iowa, 2000

19 tornado watches in 2000. 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 tornado watches reaches back to 1997.

Tornado Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2000. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
19
Busiest month
May8 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 18, 20003 tornado watches

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Jackson, Jefferson and 6 more6 hr
May 11, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 25 more5 hr
May 11, 10:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 13 more6 hr
May 17, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 3 more5 hr
May 17, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 3 more5 hr
May 18, 11:30 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAppanoose, Benton, Boone, Cedar, Clarke, Dallas and 30 more6 hr
May 18, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCScott6 hr
May 30, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 38 more6 hr
Jun 1, 1:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Bremer, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Winneshiek6 hr
Jun 13, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 18 more6 hr
Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk and 41 more7 hr
Jun 25, 1:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford, Fremont, Harrison and 6 more7 hr
Jun 25, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Boone and 38 more6 hr
Jul 26, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 34 more6 hr
Aug 5, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 58 more6 hr
Aug 12, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Floyd and 12 more6 hr
Sep 11, 1:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cedar and 21 more6 hr
Sep 11, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek5 hr
Nov 1, 3:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan and 40 more5 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

58 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 18, 20003tornado watches
  2. June 13, 20002tornado watches
  3. June 25, 20002tornado watches
  4. September 11, 20002tornado watches
  5. May 8, 20001tornado watches
  6. May 11, 20001tornado watches
  7. May 12, 20001tornado watches
  8. May 17, 20001tornado watches
  9. May 31, 20001tornado watches
  10. June 1, 20001tornado watches
  11. July 26, 20001tornado watches
  12. August 5, 20001tornado watches

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. Rebuilt daily.