Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2018
Tornado Watches in Iowa, June 2018
4 tornado watches in June 2018. 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 June 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- June 9, 20181 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cerro Gordo and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 30 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 25, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 13 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Greene County3
- Black Hawk County2
- Bremer County2
- Buchanan County2
- Butler County2
- Delaware County2
- Franklin County2
- Grundy County2
- Hardin County2
- Marshall County2
- Tama County2
- Wright County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Audubon County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Crawford County2
- Guthrie County2
- Madison County2
- Ringgold County2
- Union County2
- Boone County2
- Dallas County2
- Polk County2
- Allamakee County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Dubuque County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Hancock County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winnebago County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Worth County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Calhoun County1
49 more counties
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Emmet County1
- Fremont County1
- Harrison County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- Mills County1
- Monona County1
- Montgomery County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Page County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Plymouth County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Sac County1
- Shelby County1
- Sioux County1
- Taylor County1
- Woodbury County1
- Benton County1
- Cedar County1
- Des Moines County1
- Hamilton County1
- Henry County1
- Humboldt County1
- Iowa County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Linn County1
- Louisa County1
- Mahaska County1
- Muscatine County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Story County1
- Wapello County1
- Washington County1
- Webster County1
- Clarke County1
- Decatur County1
- Lucas 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.