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Tornado Watches in Iowa, 2024

19 tornado watches in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
19
Busiest month
April9 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 16, 20244 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 3:53 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCScott6 hr
Apr 16, 2:14 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCFremont, Harrison, Mills, Pottawattamie6 hr
Apr 16, 10:22 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 28 more8 hr
Apr 16, 12:06 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Chickasaw, Clayton, Clinton and 19 more10 hr
Apr 16, 12:23 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cherokee and 25 more7 hr
Apr 26, 12:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFremont, Harrison, Ida, Mills, Monona, Montgomery and 4 more6 hr
Apr 26, 3:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun and 27 more8 hr
Apr 27, 1:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas and 10 more7 hr
Apr 27, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque and 14 more6 hr
Apr 30, 1:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun and 39 more8 hr
May 6, 3:49 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more8 hr
May 6, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista and 34 more7 hr
May 21, 11:10 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Fremont, Harrison and 13 more5 hr
May 21, 1:14 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAdair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton and 74 more8 hr
Jun 15, 3:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCherokee, Fremont, Harrison, Ida, Lyon, Mills and 7 more6 hr
Jun 22, 3:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 21 more6 hr
Jul 2, 3:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Appanoose, Benton, Boone, Cedar, Clarke and 36 more7 hr
Jul 15, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClinton, Scott6 hr
Aug 5, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cerro Gordo and 15 more7 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

59 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 16, 20244tornado watches
  2. April 26, 20242tornado watches
  3. April 27, 20242tornado watches
  4. May 21, 20242tornado watches
  5. February 27, 20241tornado watches
  6. April 30, 20241tornado watches
  7. May 6, 20241tornado watches
  8. May 7, 20241tornado watches
  9. June 15, 20241tornado watches
  10. June 22, 20241tornado watches
  11. July 2, 20241tornado watches
  12. July 15, 20241tornado watches

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.