Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Iowa, May 2008
11 tornado watches in May 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 30, 20083 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Appanoose County5
- Clarke County5
- Jasper County5
- Lucas County5
- Mahaska County5
- Marion County5
- Monroe County5
- Poweshiek County5
- Tama County5
- Warren County5
- Wayne County5
- Adair County4
- Adams County4
- Audubon County4
- Boone County4
- Cass County4
- Dallas County4
- Decatur County4
- Greene County4
- Guthrie County4
- Madison County4
- Marshall County4
- Polk County4
- Ringgold County4
- Story County4
- Taylor County4
- Union County4
- Wapello County4
- Des Moines County4
- Henry County4
- Lee County4
- Louisa County4
- Muscatine County4
- Van Buren County4
- Calhoun County3
- Sac County3
- Carroll County3
- Benton County3
- Cedar County3
- Davis County3
59 more counties
- Grundy County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hardin County3
- Iowa County3
- Jefferson County3
- Johnson County3
- Jones County3
- Keokuk County3
- Linn County3
- Washington County3
- Emmet County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Plymouth County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Sioux County2
- Crawford County2
- Allamakee County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Clayton County2
- Fayette County2
- Floyd County2
- Howard County2
- Mitchell County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Bremer County2
- Buchanan County2
- Butler County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Franklin County2
- Webster County2
- Clinton County2
- Fremont County2
- Jackson County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Scott County2
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Hancock County1
- Kossuth County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Humboldt County1
- Wright County1
- Woodbury County1
- Harrison County1
- Monona County1
- Shelby 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.