Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2019
Tornado Watches in Iowa, May 2019
4 tornado watches in May 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 22, 20191 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 22, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa, Van Buren | 7 hr |
| May 24, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry, Iowa and 12 more | 4 hr |
| May 24, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Winneshiek | 3 hr |
| May 27, 1:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine and 1 more | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Des Moines County3
- Henry County3
- Lee County3
- Louisa County3
- Van Buren County2
- Clinton County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Cedar County1
- Dubuque County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Linn County1
- Washington County1
- Allamakee County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Winneshiek 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.