Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2006
Tornado Watches in Iowa, April 2006
7 tornado watches in April 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 April 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- April 2, 20063 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Appanoose County3
- Des Moines County3
- Henry County3
- Lee County3
- Lucas County3
- Monroe County3
- Wayne County3
- Boone County3
- Davis County2
- Jefferson County2
- Van Buren County2
- Wapello County2
- Keokuk County2
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Washington County2
- Benton County2
- Buchanan County2
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Iowa County2
- Jackson County2
- Johnson County2
- Jones County2
- Linn County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Audubon County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Clarke County2
- Crawford County2
- Dallas County2
- Decatur County2
- Fremont County2
- Greene County2
- Guthrie County2
23 more counties
- Harrison County2
- Madison County2
- Mills County2
- Monona County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Ringgold County2
- Shelby County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Marion County2
- Polk County2
- Story County2
- Warren County2
- Black Hawk County1
- Grundy County1
- Hardin County1
- Jasper County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marshall County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Tama 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.