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Tornado Watches in Iowa, 2006
24 tornado watches in 2006. 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 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 24
- Busiest month
- April7 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 2, 20063 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 2:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clinton, Des Moines, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott | 8 hr |
| Mar 12, 4:49 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Van Buren | 5 hr |
| Mar 12, 8:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Van Buren | 7 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 20 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 2, 12:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Keokuk, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott, Washington | 5 hr |
| Apr 2, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 6, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 14, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Lee | 4 hr |
| Apr 15, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 16, 11:17 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Buchanan, Cedar and 34 more | 8 hr |
| May 2, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Ida, Lyon, Monona, O'Brien, Osceola and 3 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 19, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 19, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Black Hawk, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 1, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Emmet, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Clayton, Winneshiek | 7 hr |
| Aug 24, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 9 hr |
| Aug 24, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux | 4 hr |
| Sep 16, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lyon, Monona, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 8 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford and 15 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 22, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clinton, Jackson, Scott | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Des Moines County7
- Lee County7
- Louisa County6
- Henry County6
- Boone County6
- Clinton County5
- Scott County5
- Jefferson County5
- Van Buren County5
- Carroll County5
- Crawford County5
- Greene County5
- Monona County5
- O'Brien County5
- Osceola County5
- Muscatine County4
- Adair County4
- Adams County4
- Audubon County4
- Cass County4
- Clarke County4
- Dallas County4
- Decatur County4
- Fremont County4
- Guthrie County4
- Harrison County4
- Madison County4
- Mills County4
- Montgomery County4
- Page County4
- Polk County4
- Pottawattamie County4
- Ringgold County4
- Shelby County4
- Taylor County4
- Union County4
- Warren County4
- Jackson County4
- Story County4
- Cherokee County4
59 more counties
- Lyon County4
- Sioux County4
- Clay County4
- Dickinson County4
- Emmet County4
- Hancock County4
- Humboldt County4
- Kossuth County4
- Palo Alto County4
- Pocahontas County4
- Winnebago County4
- Winneshiek County4
- Appanoose County3
- Lucas County3
- Monroe County3
- Wayne County3
- Keokuk County3
- Washington County3
- Benton County3
- Buchanan County3
- Cedar County3
- Delaware County3
- Dubuque County3
- Iowa County3
- Johnson County3
- Jones County3
- Linn County3
- Marion County3
- Black Hawk County3
- Grundy County3
- Hardin County3
- Ida County3
- Plymouth County3
- Woodbury County3
- Buena Vista County3
- Hamilton County3
- Webster County3
- Wright County3
- Howard County3
- Mitchell County3
- Worth County3
- Davis County2
- Wapello County2
- Jasper County2
- Marshall County2
- Tama County2
- Calhoun County2
- Sac County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Fayette County2
- Floyd County2
- Franklin County2
- Allamakee County2
- Mahaska County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Clayton County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.