Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2016
Tornado Watches in Iowa, May 2016
2 tornado watches in May 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 May 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- May 26, 20162 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fremont County1
- Harrison County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Audubon County1
- Cass County1
- Clarke County1
- Dallas County1
- Decatur County1
- Guthrie County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Polk County1
- Ringgold County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne 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.