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Tornado Watches in Iowa, 2013
16 tornado watches in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 16
- Busiest month
- May9 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 19, 20133 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan and 34 more | 8 hr |
| May 19, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Page | 10 hr |
| May 19, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Boone and 50 more | 8 hr |
| May 19, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Chickasaw, Clayton and 23 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 2:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Fremont and 20 more | 8 hr |
| May 29, 3:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Mills | 7 hr |
| May 29, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Audubon, Buena Vista, Carroll, Cass, Cherokee and 20 more | 4 hr |
| May 30, 11:56 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Winneshiek | 7 hr |
| May 30, 12:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 1:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 28 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux | 7 hr |
| Oct 3, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 5 hr |
| Oct 4, 2:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Fremont, Harrison and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 4, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 17, 8:40 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Jackson, Lee, Louisa and 2 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fremont County7
- Page County6
- Mills County6
- Muscatine County6
- Benton County5
- Jones County5
- Linn County5
- Cedar County5
- Clinton County5
- Des Moines County5
- Iowa County5
- Jackson County5
- Johnson County5
- Lee County5
- Louisa County5
- Montgomery County5
- Pottawattamie County5
- Scott County5
- Allamakee County4
- Buchanan County4
- Clay County4
- Clayton County4
- Delaware County4
- Dickinson County4
- Dubuque County4
- Fayette County4
- Winneshiek County4
- Harrison County4
- Henry County4
- Jefferson County4
- Keokuk County4
- Monona County4
- Shelby County4
- Taylor County4
- Van Buren County4
- Washington County4
- Boone County3
- Cerro Gordo County3
- Chickasaw County3
- Floyd County3
59 more counties
- Franklin County3
- Greene County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hancock County3
- Hardin County3
- Howard County3
- Mitchell County3
- Story County3
- Tama County3
- Winnebago County3
- Worth County3
- Wright County3
- Adams County3
- Audubon County3
- Carroll County3
- Cass County3
- Clarke County3
- Crawford County3
- Decatur County3
- Ringgold County3
- Sac County3
- Union County3
- O'Brien County3
- Osceola County3
- Sioux County3
- Woodbury County3
- Black Hawk County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Calhoun County2
- Emmet County2
- Grundy County2
- Humboldt County2
- Kossuth County2
- Marshall County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Webster County2
- Adair County2
- Appanoose County2
- Dallas County2
- Davis County2
- Guthrie County2
- Lucas County2
- Madison County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Polk County2
- Wapello County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Cherokee County2
- Ida County2
- Lyon County2
- Plymouth County2
- Jasper County1
- Poweshiek County1
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.