Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2024
Tornado Watches in Iowa, May 2024
4 tornado watches in May 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 May 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 21, 20242 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 6, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 8 hr |
| May 6, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista and 34 more | 7 hr |
| May 21, 11:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Fremont, Harrison and 13 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 1:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton and 74 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fremont County2
- Harrison County2
- Mills County2
- Monona County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Appanoose County2
- Audubon County2
- Boone County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clarke County2
- Crawford County2
- Dallas County2
- Davis County2
- Decatur County2
- Greene County2
- Guthrie County2
- Hamilton County2
- Humboldt County2
- Ida County2
- Jasper County2
- Lucas County2
- Madison County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Monroe County2
- Plymouth County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Polk County2
- Ringgold County2
- Sac County2
59 more counties
- Story County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Wapello County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Webster County2
- Woodbury County2
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Sioux County1
- Allamakee County1
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Buchanan County1
- Butler County1
- Cedar County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Clinton County1
- Delaware County1
- Des Moines County1
- Dubuque County1
- Emmet County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Grundy County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Henry County1
- Howard County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Kossuth County1
- Lee County1
- Linn County1
- Louisa County1
- Mitchell County1
- Muscatine County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Scott County1
- Tama County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington County1
- Winnebago County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
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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.