Alert archive / Iowa / 1987
Weather alerts in Iowa, September 1987
13 weather alerts in September 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 September 1987. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 13
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- September 14, 198711 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Montgomery | 69 min |
| Sep 5, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cass | 40 min |
| Sep 14, 12:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dickinson | 42 min |
| Sep 14, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo | 40 min |
| Sep 14, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Clay | 50 min |
| Sep 14, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Kossuth | 48 min |
| Sep 14, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet | 52 min |
| Sep 14, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dickinson | 50 min |
| Sep 14, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Buena Vista, Clay, Pocahontas | 21 min |
| Sep 14, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Pocahontas | 42 min |
| Sep 14, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton, Wright | 54 min |
| Sep 14, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Pocahontas, Webster | 35 min |
| Sep 14, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Benton, Linn | 40 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 13 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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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.