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Tornado Watches in Iowa, 2005

29 tornado watches in 2005. 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 2005. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
29
Busiest month
June9 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 30, 20052 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
Mar 30, 11:05 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan and 28 more5 hr
Mar 30, 2:15 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 20 more6 hr
Apr 11, 11:55 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford, Fremont, Greene and 8 more8 hr
Apr 21, 3:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page and 2 more7 hr
May 8, 1:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 6 more7 hr
May 10, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 13 more7 hr
May 12, 1:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie7 hr
May 21, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuena Vista, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Fremont and 13 more5 hr
Jun 4, 2:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Appanoose, Clarke, Decatur, Fremont, Lucas and 6 more9 hr
Jun 4, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista and 43 more7 hr
Jun 4, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 27 more8 hr
Jun 7, 9:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLyon, Sioux7 hr
Jun 8, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Guthrie and 8 more4 hr
Jun 13, 12:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLyon8 hr
Jun 13, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 78 more8 hr
Jun 29, 11:30 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux7 hr
Jun 29, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Dickinson, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth, Lyon and 5 more7 hr
Jul 25, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBremer, Buena Vista, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Chickasaw and 19 more7 hr
Jul 25, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Winneshiek7 hr
Aug 18, 2:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Clayton6 hr
Sep 12, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDickinson, Lyon, Osceola, Sioux4 hr
Sep 12, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDickinson, Lyon, Osceola6 hr
Sep 18, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Page, Plymouth and 2 more7 hr
Sep 24, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCherokee, Harrison, Ida, Lyon, Monona, O'Brien and 5 more7 hr
Sep 24, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCherokee, Harrison, Ida, Lyon, Monona, O'Brien and 5 more7 hr
Nov 5, 3:50 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCLee6 hr
Nov 12, 1:44 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista and 62 more6 hr
Nov 12, 5:40 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 14 more4 hr
Nov 27, 5:38 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Cass, Clarke and 18 more3 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. March 30, 20052tornado watches
  2. June 5, 20052tornado watches
  3. June 8, 20052tornado watches
  4. June 13, 20052tornado watches
  5. June 29, 20052tornado watches
  6. July 25, 20052tornado watches
  7. September 24, 20052tornado watches
  8. November 12, 20052tornado watches
  9. April 11, 20051tornado watches
  10. April 21, 20051tornado watches
  11. May 8, 20051tornado watches
  12. May 10, 20051tornado 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.