Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2004
Tornado Watches in Iowa, August 2004
4 tornado watches in August 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- August 3, 20042 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 3, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Buchanan, Cedar and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Guthrie and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 25, 12:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 56 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Decatur County3
- Lucas County3
- Monroe County3
- Wayne County3
- Appanoose County2
- Benton County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Boone County2
- Buchanan County2
- Clarke County2
- Dallas County2
- Davis County2
- Delaware County2
- Des Moines County2
- Dubuque County2
- Grundy County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Henry County2
- Iowa County2
- Jasper County2
- Jefferson County2
- Jones County2
- Keokuk County2
- Lee County2
- Linn County2
- Louisa County2
- Madison County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Polk County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Story County2
- Tama County2
- Van Buren County2
- Wapello County2
- Warren County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
39 more counties
- Audubon County2
- Cass County2
- Fremont County2
- Guthrie County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Ringgold County2
- Shelby County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Jackson County1
- Johnson County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Washington County1
- Harrison County1
- Allamakee County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Hancock County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Webster County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Worth 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.