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Tornado Watches in Iowa, 2007

21 tornado watches in 2007. 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 2007. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
21
Busiest month
May5 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 5, 20073 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 25, 2:54 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton and 10 more6 hr
Mar 31, 11:38 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista and 50 more7 hr
Mar 31, 1:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 37 more7 hr
Apr 22, 1:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 31 more7 hr
May 5, 10:55 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCherokee, Ida, Lyon, Monona, O'Brien, Osceola and 3 more6 hr
May 5, 2:42 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCFremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more7 hr
May 5, 4:33 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCCherokee, Ida, Lyon, Monona, O'Brien, Osceola and 3 more6 hr
May 5, 7:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 21 more9 hr
May 5, 9:31 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCherokee, Fremont, Harrison, Ida, Lyon, Mills and 10 more6 hr
Jun 1, 12:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Cedar, Clayton, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 6 more6 hr
Jun 7, 11:34 AM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAdair, Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 59 more10 hr
Jul 3, 3:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlack Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun and 32 more8 hr
Jul 3, 6:08 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Benton, Buchanan, Chickasaw, Clayton, Delaware and 9 more6 hr
Jul 16, 2:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlack Hawk, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo and 28 more8 hr
Jul 16, 3:38 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAppanoose, Benton, Boone, Buchanan, Cedar, Clarke and 39 more7 hr
Aug 4, 7:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee and 16 more3 hr
Aug 8, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Fremont and 10 more7 hr
Aug 18, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuena Vista, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson and 21 more6 hr
Aug 20, 3:49 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more6 hr
Aug 21, 6:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler and 34 more7 hr
Sep 30, 1:02 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 47 more7 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. May 5, 20073tornado watches
  2. March 31, 20072tornado watches
  3. May 6, 20072tornado watches
  4. July 3, 20072tornado watches
  5. July 16, 20072tornado watches
  6. March 25, 20071tornado watches
  7. April 22, 20071tornado watches
  8. June 1, 20071tornado watches
  9. June 7, 20071tornado watches
  10. August 5, 20071tornado watches
  11. August 8, 20071tornado watches
  12. August 18, 20071tornado 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.