Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2000
Tornado Watches in Iowa, May 2000
8 tornado watches in May 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 May 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 18, 20003 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Jackson, Jefferson and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 11, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 25 more | 5 hr |
| May 11, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 3 more | 5 hr |
| May 17, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 3 more | 5 hr |
| May 18, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Boone, Cedar, Clarke, Dallas and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Scott | 6 hr |
| May 30, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 38 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Scott County5
- Washington County5
- Cedar County4
- Muscatine County4
- Benton County4
- Iowa County4
- Johnson County4
- Keokuk County4
- Clinton County3
- Henry County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Louisa County3
- Van Buren County3
- Buchanan County3
- Delaware County3
- Dubuque County3
- Jones County3
- Linn County3
- Poweshiek County3
- Tama County3
- Des Moines County2
- Lee County2
- Allamakee County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Clayton County2
- Fayette County2
- Floyd County2
- Grundy County2
- Mitchell County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Fremont County2
- Harrison County2
- Mills County2
- Monona County2
- Montgomery County2
37 more counties
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Woodbury County2
- Boone County2
- Dallas County2
- Jasper County2
- Madison County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Polk County2
- Story County2
- Warren County2
- Howard County1
- Worth County1
- Plymouth County1
- Shelby County1
- Appanoose County1
- Clarke County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Lucas County1
- Monroe County1
- Ringgold County1
- Union County1
- Wapello County1
- Wayne County1
- Adair County1
- Cass County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Webster County1
- Wright 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.