Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2000
Tornado Watches in Iowa, August 2000
2 tornado watches in August 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 August 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- August 5, 20001 tornado 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 5, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 58 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Floyd and 12 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Emmet County2
- Floyd County2
- Hancock County2
- Howard County2
- Kossuth County2
- Mitchell County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Winnebago County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Worth County2
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Audubon County1
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Clarke County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Decatur County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Fremont County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Jasper County1
- Lucas County1
30 more counties
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Mills County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Polk County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold County1
- Sac County1
- Shelby County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Webster County1
- Wright County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Sioux 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. Rebuilt daily.