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Tornado Watches in Iowa, 2016
8 tornado watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- March2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 26, 20162 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Jackson, Jefferson and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Clarke, Decatur, Fremont, Lucas, Mills and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Decatur and 12 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 8 hr |
| May 26, 2:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Clarke, Dallas and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 22, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 19, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Davis and 24 more | 4 hr |
| Oct 6, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Cass, Clarke, Decatur, Fremont and 10 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lucas County5
- Adams County4
- Clarke County4
- Decatur County4
- Fremont County4
- Mills County4
- Montgomery County4
- Page County4
- Ringgold County4
- Taylor County4
- Union County4
- Wayne County4
- Cedar County3
- Clinton County3
- Jackson County3
- Johnson County3
- Jones County3
- Louisa County3
- Muscatine County3
- Scott County3
- Washington County3
- Adair County3
- Cass County3
- Madison County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Warren County3
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Appanoose County2
- Benton County2
- Buchanan County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Iowa County2
- Keokuk County2
- Linn County2
- Des Moines County1
- Lee County1
- Van Buren County1
- Harrison 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.