Alert archive / Iowa / 1997
Weather alerts in Iowa, October 1997
4 weather alerts in October 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 October 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 4
- Warnings
- 3
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- October 8, 19973 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont | 63 min |
| Oct 8, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cass | 33 min |
| Oct 8, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 45 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 8, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair, Cass | 35 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 | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cass County3
- Fremont County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County1
- Audubon County1
- Boone County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clarke County1
- Clay County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Decatur County1
- Dickinson County1
- Emmet County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Harrison County1
- Humboldt County1
- Ida County1
- Kossuth County1
- Lucas County1
- Lyon County1
- Madison County1
- Mills County1
- Monona County1
- Montgomery County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Page County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Plymouth County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Polk County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Ringgold County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.