Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2007
Tornado Watches in Iowa, May 2007
5 tornado watches in May 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 May 2007. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 5, 20073 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 5, 10:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Ida, Lyon, Monona, O'Brien, Osceola and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 2:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 5, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Ida, Lyon, Monona, O'Brien, Osceola and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 7:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 21 more | 9 hr |
| May 5, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Fremont, Harrison, Ida, Lyon, Mills and 10 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County3
- Ida County3
- Lyon County3
- Monona County3
- O'Brien County3
- Osceola County3
- Plymouth County3
- Sioux County3
- Woodbury County3
- Fremont County2
- Harrison County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Audubon County1
- Boone County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Clarke County1
- Clay County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Decatur County1
- Dickinson County1
- Emmet County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Madison County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Ringgold County1
- Sac County1
3 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.