Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2014
Tornado Watches in Iowa, May 2014
4 tornado watches in May 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 May 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 11, 20142 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adair County3
- Adams County3
- Audubon County3
- Cass County3
- Clarke County3
- Decatur County3
- Ringgold County3
- Taylor County3
- Union County3
- Warren County3
- Boone County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Crawford County2
- Dallas County2
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
- Guthrie County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Harrison County2
- Humboldt County2
- Madison County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Polk County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Sac County2
- Shelby County2
- Story County2
- Webster County2
- Wright County2
- Appanoose County2
- Davis County2
- Jasper County2
- Lucas County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Poweshiek County2
48 more counties
- Tama County2
- Wapello County2
- Wayne County2
- Buena Vista County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Emmet County1
- Hancock County1
- Ida County1
- Kossuth County1
- Lyon County1
- Monona County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Winnebago County1
- Woodbury County1
- Worth County1
- Benton County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Linn County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington County1
- Fremont County1
- Mills County1
- Page County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Grundy County1
- Marshall 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.