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Tornado Watches in Iowa, 2015

19 tornado watches in 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
19
Busiest month
June7 tornado watches
Busiest day
August 22, 20152 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 9, 12:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAppanoose, Benton, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Des Moines and 21 more6 hr
May 10, 10:46 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 21 more8 hr
May 24, 5:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry, Jackson and 10 more7 hr
Jun 6, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLyon, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury5 hr
Jun 6, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 6 more4 hr
Jun 11, 1:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis and 13 more7 hr
Jun 20, 3:49 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAppanoose, Benton, Boone, Cedar, Clarke, Dallas and 34 more7 hr
Jun 22, 3:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAppanoose, Benton, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Des Moines and 23 more9 hr
Jun 24, 6:21 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 42 more5 hr
Jun 28, 3:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDes Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Van Buren8 hr
Jul 12, 5:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuena Vista, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson and 15 more5 hr
Jul 13, 4:01 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 3 more7 hr
Jul 18, 1:31 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClinton, Dubuque, Jackson, Scott5 hr
Aug 18, 1:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Buchanan, Cedar, Clayton, Clinton, Delaware and 13 more8 hr
Aug 22, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuena Vista, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson and 21 more7 hr
Aug 22, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 25 more8 hr
Nov 11, 11:25 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 41 more6 hr
Nov 11, 3:20 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more6 hr
Dec 23, 1:55 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAppanoose, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Des Moines, Henry and 12 more4 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

54 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. August 22, 20152tornado watches
  2. November 11, 20152tornado watches
  3. April 9, 20151tornado watches
  4. May 10, 20151tornado watches
  5. May 24, 20151tornado watches
  6. June 6, 20151tornado watches
  7. June 7, 20151tornado watches
  8. June 11, 20151tornado watches
  9. June 20, 20151tornado watches
  10. June 22, 20151tornado watches
  11. June 24, 20151tornado watches
  12. June 28, 20151tornado watches

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.