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Tornado Watches in Iowa, 2025
12 tornado watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest month
- April6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 28, 20253 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 19, 12:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Scott | 9 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Clarke and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 20, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 28, 12:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon and 5 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Floyd, Franklin and 13 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 28, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Winneshiek | 5 hr |
| May 19, 1:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 7 hr |
| Jun 25, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Floyd, Hancock, Howard and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 7 hr |
| Jul 10, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Harrison, Monona, Plymouth, Woodbury | 7 hr |
| Jul 11, 12:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Cedar, Clarke and 33 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Scott County3
- Adair County3
- Adams County3
- Clarke County3
- Decatur County3
- Fremont County3
- Madison County3
- Mills County3
- Montgomery County3
- Page County3
- Ringgold County3
- Taylor County3
- Union County3
- Warren County3
- Chickasaw County3
- Floyd County3
- Howard County3
- Mitchell County3
- Allamakee County3
- Winneshiek County3
- Audubon County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Harrison County2
- Lucas County2
- Monona County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Wayne County2
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Keokuk County2
- Lee County2
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Van Buren County2
- Washington County2
- Plymouth County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Hancock County2
48 more counties
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Dallas County2
- Polk County2
- Crawford County1
- Shelby County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Emmet County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Sioux County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Franklin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Webster County1
- Wright County1
- Boone County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Story County1
- Woodbury County1
- Appanoose County1
- Benton County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Davis County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jasper County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Linn County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Wapello 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.