Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2005
Tornado Watches in Iowa, March 2005
2 tornado watches in March 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 March 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- March 30, 20052 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 11:05 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 20 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Allamakee County2
- Benton County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Bremer County2
- Buchanan County2
- Cedar County2
- Clayton County2
- Clinton County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Fayette County2
- Jackson County2
- Johnson County2
- Jones County2
- Linn County2
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Appanoose County1
- Davis County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jefferson County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Mahaska County1
- Monroe County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Tama County1
- Van Buren County1
- Wapello County1
- Washington County1
- Butler County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
1 more counties
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.