Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2015
Tornado Watches in Iowa, July 2015
3 tornado watches in July 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 July 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- July 12, 20151 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 18, 1:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clinton, Dubuque, Jackson, Scott | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clinton County2
- Dubuque County2
- Jackson County2
- Scott County2
- Buena Vista County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Emmet County1
- Hancock County1
- Humboldt County1
- Ida County1
- Kossuth County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Plymouth County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Sioux County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Cedar County1
- Des Moines County1
- Jones County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine 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.