Alert archive / Iowa / 1998
Weather alerts in Iowa, March 1998
40 weather alerts in March 1998, 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 March 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 40
- Warnings
- 36
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- March 30, 199826 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 6:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Louisa, Muscatine | 65 min |
| Mar 27, 6:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar, Scott | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 7:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton, Jones | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 7:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 9:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clayton, Fayette | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan, Buena Vista and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 7:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 48 min |
| Mar 29, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 45 min |
| Mar 29, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Tama | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton | 34 min |
| Mar 30, 2:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Buchanan | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 2:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas, Madison | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Delaware | 28 min |
| Mar 30, 2:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 2:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clayton | 60 min |
| Mar 30, 3:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Dubuque | 29 min |
| Mar 30, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk, Story | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 3:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Warren | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 3:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper, Marion | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Poweshiek | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 4:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Lucas, Wayne | 34 min |
| Mar 30, 4:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Poweshiek | 18 min |
| Mar 30, 4:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Poweshiek | 19 min |
| Mar 30, 4:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton, Iowa | 29 min |
| Mar 30, 4:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Monroe, Wapello | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton, Linn | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 5:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska | 34 min |
| Mar 30, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Keokuk | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 5:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Iowa, Johnson | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 6:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jefferson | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 6:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Lee, Van Buren | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 7:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Henry | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 7:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 8:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DVN | Clinton | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 8:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DVN | Jackson | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 8:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Lee | 49 min |
| Mar 31, 3:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Scott | 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 | 34 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cedar County4
- Clinton County4
- Delaware County4
- Clayton County4
- Benton County4
- Iowa County4
- Poweshiek County4
- Scott County3
- Dubuque County3
- Jackson County3
- Fayette County3
- Buchanan County3
- Monona County3
- Johnson County3
- Lee County3
- Mahaska County3
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Jones County2
- Allamakee County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Crawford County2
- Sac County2
- Story County2
- Polk County2
- Linn County2
- Washington County2
- Marion County2
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Keokuk County2
- Lucas County2
- Monroe County2
- Van Buren County2
- Wapello County2
- Wayne County2
- Boone County1
49 more counties
- Buena Vista County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Cherokee County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Emmet County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Howard County1
- Humboldt County1
- Ida County1
- Kossuth County1
- Lyon County1
- Mitchell County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Plymouth County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sioux County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Woodbury County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Fremont County1
- Harrison County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby County1
- Tama County1
- Dallas County1
- Madison County1
- Warren County1
- Jasper County1
- Appanoose County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur 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. Rebuilt daily.