Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2014
Tornado Watches in Iowa, April 2014
2 tornado watches in April 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 April 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- April 27, 20141 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adair County2
- Appanoose County2
- Audubon County2
- Cass County2
- Clarke County2
- Dallas County2
- Guthrie County2
- Jasper County2
- Lucas County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Polk County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Adams County1
- Decatur County1
- Ringgold County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Cedar County1
- Davis County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Louisa County1
- Mahaska County1
- Muscatine County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren County1
- Wapello County1
- Washington 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.