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Tornado Watches in Iowa, 2022
12 tornado watches in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest month
- May4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 12, 20222 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 5, 2:04 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun and 35 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 5, 6:10 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 12, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 12, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Crawford, Emmet, Franklin and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 12, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 4 hr |
| May 11, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson and 17 more | 8 hr |
| May 19, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Emmet, Kossuth, Mitchell, Winnebago, Worth | 7 hr |
| May 30, 11:49 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 36 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Clarke and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 12 more | 10 hr |
| Sep 18, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Boone, Cedar and 35 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adair County4
- Adams County4
- Calhoun County4
- Carroll County4
- Clarke County4
- Dallas County4
- Decatur County4
- Greene County4
- Guthrie County4
- Madison County4
- Ringgold County4
- Taylor County4
- Union County4
- Webster County4
- Monona County4
- Emmet County4
- Kossuth County4
- Winnebago County4
- Audubon County3
- Boone County3
- Cass County3
- Fremont County3
- Hamilton County3
- Jasper County3
- Lucas County3
- Marion County3
- Marshall County3
- Montgomery County3
- Page County3
- Polk County3
- Story County3
- Tama County3
- Warren County3
- Wayne County3
- Benton County3
- Linn County3
- Buena Vista County3
- Cherokee County3
- Clay County3
- Dickinson County3
59 more counties
- Ida County3
- Lyon County3
- O'Brien County3
- Osceola County3
- Plymouth County3
- Sioux County3
- Woodbury County3
- Crawford County3
- Hancock County3
- Humboldt County3
- Palo Alto County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Sac County3
- Worth County3
- Appanoose County2
- Davis County2
- Grundy County2
- Hardin County2
- Mahaska County2
- Mills County2
- Monroe County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Shelby County2
- Wapello County2
- Buchanan County2
- Cedar County2
- Delaware County2
- Des Moines County2
- Dubuque County2
- Henry County2
- Iowa County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Jones County2
- Keokuk County2
- Lee County2
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Van Buren County2
- Washington County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Franklin County2
- Wright County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Howard County2
- Mitchell County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Clinton County1
- Floyd County1
- Harrison County1
- Allamakee County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.