Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2013
Tornado Watches in Iowa, May 2013
9 tornado watches in May 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 May 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 19, 20133 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County4
- Jones County4
- Linn County4
- Fremont County4
- Des Moines County4
- Henry County4
- Iowa County4
- Jefferson County4
- Johnson County4
- Keokuk County4
- Lee County4
- Louisa County4
- Muscatine County4
- Van Buren County4
- Washington County4
- Allamakee County3
- Buchanan County3
- Clayton County3
- Delaware County3
- Dubuque County3
- Fayette County3
- Winneshiek County3
- Page County3
- Cedar County3
- Clinton County3
- Jackson County3
- Mills County3
- Scott County3
- Taylor County3
- Boone County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Floyd County2
- Greene County2
- Howard County2
- Marshall County2
- Mitchell County2
- Story County2
- Tama County2
59 more counties
- Adams County2
- Appanoose County2
- Audubon County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Clarke County2
- Crawford County2
- Davis County2
- Decatur County2
- Harrison County2
- Lucas County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Monona County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Ringgold County2
- Sac County2
- Shelby County2
- Union County2
- Wapello County2
- Wayne County2
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Adair County1
- Dallas County1
- Guthrie County1
- Jasper County1
- Madison County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Warren County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
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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.