Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2004
Tornado Watches in Iowa, July 2004
5 tornado watches in July 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 July 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- July 5, 20041 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 12, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Harrison, Ida, Lyon and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 13, 10:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 19, 1:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 31, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dickinson, Emmet, Kossuth, Lyon, Mitchell, Osceola and 2 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cedar County3
- Clinton County3
- Delaware County3
- Dubuque County3
- Jackson County3
- Jones County3
- Linn County3
- Muscatine County3
- Scott County3
- Allamakee County2
- Benton County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Bremer County2
- Buchanan County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Clayton County2
- Des Moines County2
- Emmet County2
- Fayette County2
- Henry County2
- Howard County2
- Iowa County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Keokuk County2
- Kossuth County2
- Lee County2
- Louisa County2
- Mitchell County2
- Van Buren County2
- Washington County2
- Winnebago County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Worth County2
- Dickinson County2
- Lyon County2
- Osceola County2
- Appanoose County1
- Butler County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
29 more counties
- Davis County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Jasper County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Wapello County1
- Webster County1
- Wright County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Harrison County1
- Ida County1
- Monona County1
- O'Brien County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury 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.