Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2001
Tornado Watches in Iowa, April 2001
6 tornado watches in April 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 April 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- April 11, 20014 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 50 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 11, 10:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Cass, Crawford, Fremont, Harrison, Mills and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 11, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 46 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 40 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford, Greene, Harrison and 8 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County3
- Black Hawk County3
- Davis County3
- Des Moines County3
- Greene County3
- Grundy County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hardin County3
- Henry County3
- Iowa County3
- Jasper County3
- Jefferson County3
- Johnson County3
- Keokuk County3
- Lee County3
- Louisa County3
- Mahaska County3
- Marshall County3
- Poweshiek County3
- Story County3
- Tama County3
- Van Buren County3
- Wapello County3
- Washington County3
- Webster County3
- Crawford County3
- Harrison County3
- Mills County3
- Monona County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Shelby County3
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Appanoose County2
- Boone County2
- Buchanan County2
- Cass County2
- Cedar County2
- Clarke County2
- Clinton County2
46 more counties
- Dallas County2
- Decatur County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Guthrie County2
- Jackson County2
- Jones County2
- Linn County2
- Lucas County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Muscatine County2
- Page County2
- Polk County2
- Ringgold County2
- Scott County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Fremont County2
- Woodbury County2
- Audubon County2
- Butler County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Franklin County2
- Ida County2
- Sac County2
- Wright County2
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Humboldt County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Allamakee County1
- Bremer County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Hancock County1
- Kossuth County1
- Winneshiek 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.