Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2006
Tornado Watches in Iowa, May 2006
2 tornado watches in May 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 May 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20061 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- Monona County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Delaware County1
- Des Moines County1
- Dubuque County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Linn County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington 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.