Alert archive / Iowa / 1997
Weather alerts in Iowa, September 1997
18 weather alerts in September 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 September 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 18
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- September 16, 19976 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills | 49 min |
| Sep 2, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 49 min |
| Sep 2, 2:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Mills, Pottawattamie | 4 hr |
| Sep 2, 8:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Linn | 4 hr |
| Sep 8, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 31 min |
| Sep 16, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton and 53 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Buchanan, Delaware, Linn | 62 min |
| Sep 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Linn | 34 min |
| Sep 16, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dubuque | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jones | 64 min |
| Sep 16, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry | 49 min |
| Sep 16, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Louisa | 49 min |
| Sep 18, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 18, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 33 min |
| Sep 19, 10:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Benton | 65 min |
| Sep 19, 10:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Linn | 60 min |
| Sep 19, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buchanan, Cedar, Clayton, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 11 more | 5 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 | 10 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Linn County6
- Buchanan County3
- Delaware County3
- Des Moines County3
- Dubuque County3
- Henry County3
- Jones County3
- Louisa County3
- Mills County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Lyon County2
- Benton County2
- Clayton County2
- Hancock County2
- Humboldt County2
- Webster County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Washington County2
- Woodbury County2
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Allamakee County1
- Appanoose County1
- Audubon County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Cass County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clarke County1
57 more counties
- Dallas County1
- Decatur County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Fremont County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Howard County1
- Iowa County1
- Jasper County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Mitchell County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Wright County1
- Davis County1
- Lee County1
- Van Buren County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Crawford County1
- Dickinson County1
- Emmet County1
- Ida County1
- Kossuth County1
- Monona County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Plymouth County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Sioux 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.