Alert archive / Iowa / 1993
Weather alerts in Iowa, May 1993
32 weather alerts in May 1993, 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 1993. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 32
- Warnings
- 32
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 28, 19938 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Keokuk, Wapello | 3 hr |
| May 2, 2:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Jones | 3 hr |
| May 2, 3:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Benton, Linn | 3 hr |
| May 2, 5:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Appanoose | 2 hr |
| May 3, 6:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Washington | 3 hr |
| May 4, 4:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Davis, Jefferson, Van Buren, Wapello | 3 hr |
| May 4, 4:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Washington | 3 hr |
| May 4, 4:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Jones | 3 hr |
| May 4, 7:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Davis, Jefferson, Van Buren, Wapello | 4 hr |
| May 4, 7:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Washington | 4 hr |
| May 4, 7:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Jones | 4 hr |
| May 8, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Franklin | 30 min |
| May 8, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Humboldt, Kossuth | 29 min |
| May 10, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jones | 30 min |
| May 10, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Winneshiek | 55 min |
| May 10, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Howard | 60 min |
| May 11, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Greene, Webster | 28 min |
| May 14, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon, Carroll, Crawford | 64 min |
| May 14, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills, Pottawattamie | 48 min |
| May 14, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Johnson | 18 min |
| May 27, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton | 25 min |
| May 27, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Butler | 35 min |
| May 27, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Greene | 30 min |
| May 27, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hardin | 38 min |
| May 27, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Story | 38 min |
| May 27, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marshall, Story | 25 min |
| May 27, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Marshall | 27 min |
| May 27, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Black Hawk | 33 min |
| May 27, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Buchanan | 50 min |
| May 27, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk | 34 min |
| May 27, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair, Madison | 23 min |
| May 28, 11:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Scott | 49 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 | 19 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 11 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jones County4
- Wapello County3
- Washington County3
- Davis County2
- Jefferson County2
- Van Buren County2
- Greene County2
- Story County2
- Marshall County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Keokuk County1
- Benton County1
- Linn County1
- Appanoose County1
- Franklin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Howard County1
- Webster County1
- Audubon County1
- Carroll County1
- Crawford County1
- Mills County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Johnson County1
- Hamilton County1
- Butler County1
- Boone County1
- Hardin County1
- Buchanan County1
- Adair County1
- Madison County1
- Scott 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. Rebuilt daily.