Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Iowa, 2014
25 tornado watches in 2014. 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 25
- Busiest month
- June15 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 16, 20144 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 11:23 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Cass, Clarke and 14 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 28, 1:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Appanoose, Audubon, Cass, Cedar, Clarke and 26 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 45 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 11:53 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Cedar, Clarke, Clinton, Davis and 26 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 2:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Harrison and 8 more | 8 hr |
| May 11, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 38 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 1:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Clarke and 20 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cherokee and 23 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Ida, Monona, O'Brien, Plymouth, Sioux and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee and 33 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Harrison, Monona, Shelby | 7 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler and 38 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 11:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Black Hawk, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo and 25 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 18, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 5 hr |
| Jun 29, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 40 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 29, 10:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clinton, Jackson | 5 hr |
| Jun 30, 9:38 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 46 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 30, 2:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clayton, Clinton, Delaware and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 12, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Cedar, Clarke, Clinton and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Emmet and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 31, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 25 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 9, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Cass, Clarke and 17 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Audubon County13
- Cass County12
- Clarke County12
- Guthrie County12
- Adair County11
- Adams County11
- Decatur County11
- Lucas County11
- Ringgold County11
- Taylor County11
- Union County11
- Wayne County11
- Dallas County10
- Jasper County10
- Madison County10
- Polk County10
- Warren County10
- Woodbury County10
- Appanoose County9
- Marion County9
- Monroe County9
- Calhoun County9
- Carroll County9
- Crawford County9
- Harrison County9
- Ida County9
- Monona County9
- Plymouth County9
- Pottawattamie County9
- Sac County9
- Shelby County9
- Sioux County9
- Webster County9
- Davis County8
- Poweshiek County8
- Wapello County8
- Cherokee County8
- Greene County8
- Hamilton County8
- Hardin County8
59 more counties
- Montgomery County8
- O'Brien County8
- Pocahontas County8
- Boone County7
- Buena Vista County7
- Clay County7
- Dickinson County7
- Humboldt County7
- Lyon County7
- Osceola County7
- Story County7
- Fremont County7
- Mills County7
- Page County7
- Grundy County7
- Mahaska County6
- Emmet County6
- Franklin County6
- Palo Alto County6
- Wright County6
- Tama County6
- Marshall County6
- Kossuth County5
- Black Hawk County5
- Cedar County4
- Des Moines County4
- Henry County4
- Iowa County4
- Jefferson County4
- Johnson County4
- Keokuk County4
- Lee County4
- Louisa County4
- Muscatine County4
- Scott County4
- Van Buren County4
- Washington County4
- Hancock County4
- Winnebago County4
- Clinton County4
- Jackson County4
- Bremer County4
- Butler County4
- Cerro Gordo County3
- Worth County3
- Benton County3
- Jones County3
- Linn County3
- Clayton County2
- Fayette County2
- Allamakee County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Buchanan County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque 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. Rebuilt daily.