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Tornado Watches in Iowa, 2001

21 tornado watches in 2001. 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 2001. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
21
Busiest month
June11 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 11, 20014 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
Apr 8, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 50 more6 hr
Apr 11, 2:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCrawford, Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Pottawattamie and 1 more5 hr
Apr 11, 10:45 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Cass, Crawford, Fremont, Harrison, Mills and 8 more5 hr
Apr 11, 12:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 46 more5 hr
Apr 11, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 40 more6 hr
Apr 22, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford, Greene, Harrison and 8 more5 hr
May 1, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuena Vista, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Chickasaw and 24 more6 hr
Jun 1, 1:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Allamakee, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 51 more6 hr
Jun 1, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAppanoose, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson and 11 more6 hr
Jun 1, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAppanoose, Benton, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Des Moines and 22 more4 hr
Jun 12, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuena Vista, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson and 12 more6 hr
Jun 13, 12:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Humboldt and 10 more5 hr
Jun 13, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux5 hr
Jun 13, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuena Vista, Cherokee, Crawford, Harrison, Ida, Monona and 2 more6 hr
Jun 13, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola and 2 more6 hr
Jun 14, 12:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Cass, Fremont, Madison, Mills and 5 more5 hr
Jun 14, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Appanoose, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler and 43 more6 hr
Jun 17, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 6 more6 hr
Jul 3, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Cass, Clarke and 32 more6 hr
Oct 9, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Plymouth, Woodbury5 hr
Oct 22, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAppanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry and 14 more5 hr

By county

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

59 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 11, 20014tornado watches
  2. June 1, 20013tornado watches
  3. June 13, 20013tornado watches
  4. June 14, 20013tornado watches
  5. April 9, 20011tornado watches
  6. April 22, 20011tornado watches
  7. May 1, 20011tornado watches
  8. June 12, 20011tornado watches
  9. June 17, 20011tornado watches
  10. July 3, 20011tornado watches
  11. October 10, 20011tornado watches
  12. October 22, 20011tornado 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.