Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2010
Tornado Watches in Iowa, August 2010
3 tornado watches in August 2010. 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 August 2010. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- August 10, 20101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lyon, Sioux | 7 hr |
| Aug 30, 11:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dickinson County2
- Lyon County2
- Sioux County2
- Adair County1
- Audubon County1
- Boone County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Clay County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Emmet County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Harrison County1
- Humboldt County1
- Ida County1
- Kossuth County1
- Madison County1
- Monona County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Sac County1
- Shelby County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth 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.