Alert archive / Iowa / 1994
Weather alerts in Iowa, May 1994
23 weather alerts in May 1994, 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 1994. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 23
- Warnings
- 23
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 4, 19946 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 4, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Emmet | 32 min |
| May 4, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Clay | 39 min |
| May 4, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Pocahontas | 36 min |
| May 4, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Buena Vista | 48 min |
| May 4, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Calhoun | 33 min |
| May 4, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Guthrie | 29 min |
| May 5, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills | 36 min |
| May 22, 7:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Calhoun | 3 hr |
| May 23, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clayton | 66 min |
| May 23, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Dubuque | 35 min |
| May 23, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Taylor | 23 min |
| May 24, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Clarke | 28 min |
| May 24, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Decatur | 30 min |
| May 24, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Decatur, Ringgold | 38 min |
| May 24, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Decatur | 27 min |
| May 25, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Louisa | 66 min |
| May 25, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Clayton | 22 min |
| May 30, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Worth | 31 min |
| May 30, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mitchell | 32 min |
| May 30, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Butler, Floyd | 30 min |
| May 30, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Bremer | 58 min |
| May 30, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk | 57 min |
| May 30, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Grundy | 25 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 | 20 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Decatur County3
- Calhoun County2
- Clayton County2
- Emmet County1
- Clay County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Guthrie County1
- Mills County1
- Dubuque County1
- Taylor County1
- Clarke County1
- Ringgold County1
- Louisa County1
- Worth County1
- Mitchell County1
- Butler County1
- Floyd County1
- Bremer County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Grundy 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.