Alert archive / Iowa / 1987

Weather alerts in Iowa, May 1987

53 weather alerts in May 1987, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.

Weather alerts by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1987. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
53
Warnings
53
Watches
0
Advisories
0
Busiest day
May 20, 198713 alerts

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 3:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPolk38 min
May 2, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXPolk50 min
May 2, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXJasper27 min
May 13, 9:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXClay, Palo Alto23 min
May 13, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXEmmet, Kossuth25 min
May 18, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXClarke, Union37 min
May 18, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXDecatur67 min
May 18, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXWayne50 min
May 18, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXIowa29 min
May 19, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXGuthrie35 min
May 19, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXDecatur66 min
May 19, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXRinggold46 min
May 20, 3:24 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar, Muscatine21 min
May 20, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXUnion33 min
May 20, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXDecatur30 min
May 20, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXLinn41 min
May 20, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNScott50 min
May 20, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXMahaska41 min
May 20, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXBlack Hawk20 min
May 20, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXBremer40 min
May 20, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXBremer60 min
May 20, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXTama19 min
May 20, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXButler20 min
May 21, 1:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXMontgomery, Page4 hr
May 21, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXDavis, Van Buren40 min
May 21, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXVan Buren31 min
May 26, 5:12 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXMills, Montgomery4 hr
May 26, 8:42 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXPottawattamie4 hr
May 26, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNCedar, Muscatine25 min
May 26, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXDallas49 min
May 26, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXWebster48 min
May 26, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXBoone28 min
May 26, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXPolk50 min
May 26, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXHamilton, Story53 min
May 26, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXAppanoose41 min
May 26, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXWarren49 min
May 26, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXDavis36 min
May 27, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXRinggold, Taylor37 min
May 27, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNJones57 min
May 30, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXIowa, Keokuk25 min
May 30, 7:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNScott56 min
May 30, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMonona56 min
May 30, 9:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMills, Pottawattamie41 min
May 31, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXUnion34 min
May 31, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXAdams17 min
May 31, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAudubon, Cass60 min
May 31, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXGuthrie38 min
May 31, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXDallas24 min
May 31, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXDallas, Guthrie59 min
May 31, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXClarke, Ringgold, Union41 min
May 31, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXClarke, Lucas38 min
May 31, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXLucas47 min
May 31, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXAppanoose, Monroe50 min

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

ProductAlerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning46
Tornado Warning4
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning3

By county

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

4 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. Rebuilt daily.