Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Iowa, 2008
39 tornado watches in 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 39
- Busiest month
- June21 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 5, 20086 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 2:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Lee, Scott | 6 hr |
| Apr 10, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 25, 1:13 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Montgomery, Page | 5 hr |
| Apr 25, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 4 more | 4 hr |
| May 1, 4:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 1, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 24 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 2:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton, Emmet, Fayette and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 55 more | 5 hr |
| May 25, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 25, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 56 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 6 hr |
| May 29, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun and 29 more | 8 hr |
| May 30, 1:19 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Cedar, Clarke, Clinton, Davis and 25 more | 8 hr |
| May 30, 7:56 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine, Van Buren | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Boone and 43 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clinton, Jackson, Scott | 8 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 11:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 64 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:59 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry, Iowa and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 10:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Fremont and 15 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 5, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 44 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan and 40 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 7, 12:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 37 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 7, 2:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 7, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Fremont, Harrison, Ida and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 7, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allamakee, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 43 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 8, 1:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 21 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 8, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Davis and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll and 32 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 11, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 39 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 1:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Davis, Mahaska, Monroe, Wapello, Wayne | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Jackson, Jefferson and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Harrison and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 19, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun and 25 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 19, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Buchanan and 39 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Des Moines County16
- Louisa County15
- Lee County14
- Cedar County14
- Muscatine County14
- Adair County13
- Appanoose County13
- Henry County13
- Mahaska County13
- Monroe County13
- Warren County13
- Wayne County13
- Jones County13
- Greene County13
- Guthrie County13
- Tama County13
- Clarke County12
- Jefferson County12
- Keokuk County12
- Lucas County12
- Madison County12
- Marion County12
- Van Buren County12
- Washington County12
- Dubuque County12
- Audubon County12
- Boone County12
- Dallas County12
- Jasper County12
- Marshall County12
- Poweshiek County12
- Story County12
- Johnson County12
- Linn County12
- Scott County11
- Decatur County11
- Ringgold County11
- Union County11
- Wapello County11
- Clinton County11
59 more counties
- Jackson County11
- Adams County11
- Carroll County11
- Cass County11
- Polk County11
- Taylor County11
- Iowa County11
- Davis County10
- Fremont County10
- Montgomery County10
- Page County10
- Sac County10
- Crawford County10
- Benton County10
- Calhoun County9
- Delaware County9
- Grundy County9
- Hamilton County9
- Hardin County9
- Webster County9
- Mills County9
- Pocahontas County8
- Black Hawk County8
- Bremer County8
- Buchanan County8
- Butler County8
- Franklin County8
- Humboldt County8
- Pottawattamie County8
- Harrison County8
- Monona County8
- Shelby County8
- Buena Vista County7
- Cherokee County7
- Ida County7
- Plymouth County7
- Chickasaw County7
- Fayette County7
- Floyd County7
- Hancock County7
- Winneshiek County7
- Wright County7
- Woodbury County7
- Clay County6
- Emmet County6
- Palo Alto County6
- Sioux County6
- Allamakee County6
- Cerro Gordo County6
- Clayton County6
- Howard County6
- Mitchell County6
- Winnebago County6
- Dickinson County5
- Lyon County5
- O'Brien County5
- Osceola County5
- Kossuth County5
- Worth County5
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.