Alert archive / Iowa / 1997

Weather alerts in Iowa, May 1997

72 weather alerts in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 72
Warnings: 66
Watches: 6
Advisories: 0
Busiest day: May 18, 199727 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, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont	31 min
May 2, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Page	61 min
May 2, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Decatur	30 min
May 2, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Wayne	33 min
May 2, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Appanoose	49 min
May 7, 10:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Buena Vista	16 min
May 7, 10:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Palo Alto, Pocahontas	44 min
May 7, 10:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Buena Vista, Ida	30 min
May 7, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 22 more	5 hr
May 7, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	64 min
May 7, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Crawford	32 min
May 7, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Shelby	64 min
May 7, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Crawford	17 min
May 7, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Carroll	31 min
May 7, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Mills, Pottawattamie	64 min
May 7, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon	31 min
May 7, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adams	33 min
May 7, 4:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Mills	66 min
May 7, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon	36 min
May 7, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Marion, Warren	34 min
May 7, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Dallas, Guthrie	33 min
May 7, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Montgomery, Page	62 min
May 7, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry and 22 more	6 hr
May 12, 5:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Polk	27 min
May 12, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Jasper	31 min
May 12, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Marion	35 min
May 16, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 44 more	6 hr
May 16, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	31 min
May 16, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Polk	33 min
May 16, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Dallas	32 min
May 16, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie	47 min
May 16, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair	33 min
May 16, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Benton, Linn	47 min
May 16, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Page	63 min
May 16, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Union	48 min
May 16, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Ringgold, Taylor	47 min
May 16, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Clarke	47 min
May 16, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Jefferson	46 min
May 18, 2:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adams	31 min
May 18, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk and 57 more	7 hr
May 18, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Benton	50 min
May 18, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Tama	27 min
May 18, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Linn	50 min
May 18, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Winneshiek	64 min
May 18, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Tama	34 min
May 18, 3:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Benton, Linn	50 min
May 18, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Delaware	51 min
May 18, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Cedar, Jones	50 min
May 18, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Tama	19 min
May 18, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Benton	50 min
May 18, 4:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Linn	49 min
May 18, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Dubuque	49 min
May 18, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clinton, Jackson	47 min
May 18, 5:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Benton, Linn	3 hr
May 18, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Cedar, Jones	47 min
May 18, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clinton, Scott	6 hr
May 18, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Iowa, Johnson	63 min
May 18, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Linn	49 min
May 18, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Dubuque	49 min
May 18, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clinton	46 min
May 18, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Delaware	47 min
May 18, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Dubuque	50 min
May 18, 6:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Dubuque	3 hr
May 18, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Johnson	49 min
May 18, 6:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Cedar, Muscatine	50 min
May 18, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clinton	51 min
May 18, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Scott	49 min
May 18, 7:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Scott	48 min
May 18, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Muscatine	50 min
May 18, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Louisa	49 min
May 18, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Des Moines, Lee	48 min
May 23, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Fremont, Mills	6 hr

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	52
Tornado Warning	12
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	4
Tornado Watch	2
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning	2

By county

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

43 more counties

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.