Alert archive / Iowa / 1997
Weather alerts in Iowa, August 1997
64 weather alerts in August 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 August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 64
- Warnings
- 57
- Watches
- 7
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 17, 199715 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 3, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jones | 63 min |
| Aug 3, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar, Clayton and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 3, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Dubuque | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 2:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Clinton | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Scott | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Scott | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Scott | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clayton | 52 min |
| Aug 3, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Dubuque | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Crawford, Harrison, Ida, Monona and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 14, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 44 min |
| Aug 14, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Crawford | 35 min |
| Aug 14, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Carroll, Greene | 47 min |
| Aug 15, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Davis, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 15, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone | 27 min |
| Aug 15, 12:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Boone, Dallas | 34 min |
| Aug 15, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk, Story | 31 min |
| Aug 15, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton, Story | 36 min |
| Aug 15, 5:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry, Jefferson | 48 min |
| Aug 15, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wapello | 34 min |
| Aug 16, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jackson | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jones | 46 min |
| Aug 16, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Jackson, Jones | 63 min |
| Aug 16, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Clinton, Scott | 62 min |
| Aug 16, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas, Mahaska and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Scott | 32 min |
| Aug 16, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Warren | 34 min |
| Aug 16, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Cedar | 59 min |
| Aug 16, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Warren | 14 min |
| Aug 16, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Monroe | 36 min |
| Aug 16, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Muscatine | 65 min |
| Aug 16, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marion | 34 min |
| Aug 16, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 32 min |
| Aug 16, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 32 min |
| Aug 16, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Johnson, Washington | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 9:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Muscatine | 62 min |
| Aug 16, 10:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Muscatine | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 12:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Cedar, Johnson | 8 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Keokuk, Washington | 7 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Howard, Winneshiek | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Floyd | 35 min |
| Aug 23, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Bremer | 32 min |
| Aug 23, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Winneshiek | 64 min |
| Aug 23, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clayton | 49 min |
| Aug 23, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Winneshiek | 33 min |
| Aug 23, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk, Grundy | 34 min |
| Aug 23, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clayton | 33 min |
| Aug 23, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Delaware | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Tama | 33 min |
| Aug 23, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Delaware | 50 min |
| Aug 24, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jasper, Jefferson and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Decatur | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Decatur | 32 min |
| Aug 24, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold | 34 min |
| Aug 24, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold | 18 min |
| Aug 24, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold | 18 min |
| Aug 26, 10:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska | 33 min |
| Aug 30, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jones | 62 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 | 42 |
| Tornado Warning | 12 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 6 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Scott County7
- Jones County6
- Henry County6
- Muscatine County6
- Washington County6
- Cedar County5
- Clayton County5
- Clinton County5
- Jefferson County5
- Keokuk County5
- Mahaska County5
- Wapello County5
- Delaware County4
- Dubuque County4
- Jackson County4
- Johnson County4
- Louisa County4
- Van Buren County4
- Marion County4
- Monroe County4
- Ringgold County4
- Benton County3
- Des Moines County3
- Lee County3
- Polk County3
- Poweshiek County3
- Appanoose County3
- Davis County3
- Decatur County3
- Warren County3
- Winneshiek County3
- Black Hawk County2
- Bremer County2
- Buchanan County2
- Fayette County2
- Grundy County2
- Iowa County2
- Jasper County2
- Linn County2
- Tama County2
27 more counties
- Crawford County2
- Woodbury County2
- Lucas County2
- Wayne County2
- Boone County2
- Story County2
- Page County2
- Allamakee County2
- Marshall County1
- Fremont County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Harrison County1
- Ida County1
- Monona County1
- Plymouth County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Carroll County1
- Greene County1
- Dallas County1
- Hamilton County1
- Clarke County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Howard County1
- Floyd 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.