Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Iowa, June 2008
21 tornado watches in June 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 June 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 21
- Busiest day
- June 5, 20086 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cedar County9
- Des Moines County8
- Greene County8
- Guthrie County8
- Johnson County8
- Jones County8
- Linn County8
- Louisa County8
- Muscatine County8
- Dubuque County8
- Fremont County7
- Mills County7
- Montgomery County7
- Page County7
- Adair County7
- Audubon County7
- Boone County7
- Carroll County7
- Crawford County7
- Dallas County7
- Henry County7
- Iowa County7
- Jefferson County7
- Keokuk County7
- Marshall County7
- Story County7
- Tama County7
- Washington County7
- Clinton County7
- Jackson County7
- Pottawattamie County6
- Adams County6
- Appanoose County6
- Benton County6
- Cass County6
- Harrison County6
- Jasper County6
- Lee County6
- Madison County6
- Mahaska County6
59 more counties
- Monona County6
- Monroe County6
- Polk County6
- Poweshiek County6
- Shelby County6
- Taylor County6
- Van Buren County6
- Warren County6
- Wayne County6
- Scott County6
- Delaware County6
- Humboldt County6
- Sac County6
- Webster County6
- Clarke County5
- Davis County5
- Decatur County5
- Lucas County5
- Marion County5
- Ringgold County5
- Union County5
- Wapello County5
- Black Hawk County5
- Bremer County5
- Buchanan County5
- Buena Vista County5
- Butler County5
- Calhoun County5
- Cherokee County5
- Franklin County5
- Grundy County5
- Hamilton County5
- Hardin County5
- Ida County5
- Pocahontas County5
- Woodbury County5
- Wright County5
- Hancock County5
- Plymouth County4
- Clay County4
- Winnebago County4
- Cerro Gordo County4
- Chickasaw County4
- Fayette County4
- Floyd County4
- Winneshiek County4
- Dickinson County3
- Lyon County3
- O'Brien County3
- Osceola County3
- Sioux County3
- Emmet County3
- Kossuth County3
- Palo Alto County3
- Allamakee County3
- Clayton County3
- Howard County3
- Mitchell County3
- Worth County3
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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.