Alert archive / Iowa / 1997

Weather alerts in Iowa, April 1997

32 weather alerts in April 1997, 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 April 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 32
Warnings: 30
Watches: 2
Advisories: 0
Busiest day: April 5, 199718 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
Apr 5, 1:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Lee	31 min
Apr 5, 2:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Des Moines	47 min
Apr 5, 2:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Louisa	42 min
Apr 5, 2:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cedar and 36 more	5 hr
Apr 5, 2:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Benton, Johnson, Linn	45 min
Apr 5, 2:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Muscatine, Scott	44 min
Apr 5, 2:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Cedar	44 min
Apr 5, 3:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Black Hawk	16 min
Apr 5, 3:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Chickasaw, Floyd	32 min
Apr 5, 3:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Fayette	32 min
Apr 5, 3:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Delaware, Jones	43 min
Apr 5, 3:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Buchanan	43 min
Apr 5, 3:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Bremer	15 min
Apr 5, 3:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clinton	47 min
Apr 5, 3:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Dubuque, Jackson	42 min
Apr 5, 4:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Winneshiek	32 min
Apr 5, 4:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Allamakee	61 min
Apr 5, 5:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Monona	31 min
Apr 5, 6:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Monona	33 min
Apr 5, 6:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Crawford	19 min
Apr 5, 6:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Sac	34 min
Apr 30, 10:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Wayne	29 min
Apr 30, 11:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Appanoose, Monroe	30 min
Apr 30, 12:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Johnson, Lee and 4 more	7 hr
Apr 30, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Cedar	34 min
Apr 30, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clinton, Jackson, Jones	49 min
Apr 30, 3:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Cedar, Clinton	34 min
Apr 30, 3:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Scott	50 min
Apr 30, 3:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Muscatine	47 min
Apr 30, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Clinton	50 min
Apr 30, 4:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Jackson	47 min
Apr 30, 4:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Clinton	34 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	23
Tornado Warning	7
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	1
Tornado Watch	1

By county

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

10 more counties

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 1996 1998

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.