Alert archive / Iowa / 1990
Weather alerts in Iowa, August 1990
40 weather alerts in August 1990, 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 August 1990. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 40
- Warnings
- 40
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 29, 199015 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Harrison | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo, Winnebago | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 58 min |
| Aug 2, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Worth | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hardin | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Story | 31 min |
| Aug 10, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone | 34 min |
| Aug 10, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas | 41 min |
| Aug 18, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet, Palo Alto | 21 min |
| Aug 18, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Kossuth, Palo Alto | 41 min |
| Aug 19, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Polk, Story | 29 min |
| Aug 19, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton | 44 min |
| Aug 19, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hancock, Wright | 27 min |
| Aug 23, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 48 min |
| Aug 23, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Monona | 69 min |
| Aug 23, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Clay | 39 min |
| Aug 24, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Clay, Palo Alto | 28 min |
| Aug 24, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jones | 40 min |
| Aug 24, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska | 40 min |
| Aug 24, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Davis | 42 min |
| Aug 24, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Delaware | 28 min |
| Aug 26, 6:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Humboldt | 18 min |
| Aug 26, 6:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wright | 30 min |
| Aug 26, 7:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wright | 31 min |
| Aug 26, 7:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Allamakee | 37 min |
| Aug 29, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska | 26 min |
| Aug 29, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Marion | 40 min |
| Aug 29, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Louisa | 34 min |
| Aug 29, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wapello | 51 min |
| Aug 29, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jefferson | 52 min |
| Aug 29, 12:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Wapello | 48 min |
| Aug 29, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Van Buren | 49 min |
| Aug 29, 1:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Wapello | 42 min |
| Aug 29, 1:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Davis, Van Buren | 48 min |
| Aug 29, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Lee | 41 min |
| Aug 29, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Lee | 44 min |
| Aug 29, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hardin | 23 min |
| Aug 29, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Wapello | 45 min |
| Aug 29, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marion | 47 min |
| Aug 29, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair, Guthrie | 50 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 | 33 |
| Tornado Warning | 7 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mahaska County5
- Wapello County4
- Harrison County3
- Palo Alto County3
- Wright County3
- Hardin County2
- Story County2
- Boone County2
- Clay County2
- Davis County2
- Marion County2
- Van Buren County2
- Lee County2
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Dallas County1
- Emmet County1
- Kossuth County1
- Polk County1
- Clinton County1
- Hancock County1
- Monona County1
- Jones County1
- Delaware County1
- Humboldt County1
- Allamakee County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Louisa County1
- Jefferson County1
- Adair County1
- Guthrie County1
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.