Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2021
Tornado Watches in Iowa, July 2021
2 tornado watches in July 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- July 14, 20212 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 14, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan and 41 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Cedar, Clayton, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Audubon County1
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Buchanan County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Cherokee County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clay County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Emmet County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Harrison County1
- Humboldt County1
- Ida County1
- Iowa County1
- Jasper County1
- Kossuth County1
- Marshall County1
- Monona County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Sac County1
- Shelby County1
20 more counties
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.