Alert archive / Iowa / 1998
Weather alerts in Iowa, September 1998
13 weather alerts in September 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 September 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 13
- Warnings
- 10
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- September 26, 19984 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 1, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Palo Alto | 32 min |
| Sep 1, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Pocahontas | 31 min |
| Sep 1, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Pocahontas | 34 min |
| Sep 2, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fayette | 33 min |
| Sep 19, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet | 34 min |
| Sep 19, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 48 min |
| Sep 19, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills | 49 min |
| Sep 25, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 25, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 26, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun and 25 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 26, 6:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wright | 36 min |
| Sep 29, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, O'Brien | 48 min |
| Sep 29, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 31 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 | 10 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pocahontas County3
- O'Brien County3
- Clay County3
- Palo Alto County2
- Fayette County2
- Emmet County2
- Cherokee County2
- Lyon County2
- Osceola County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Woodbury County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Crawford County2
- Hancock County2
- Humboldt County2
- Wright County2
- Pottawattamie County1
- Mills County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- Kossuth County1
- Monona County1
- Sac County1
- Winnebago County1
- Allamakee County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Dallas County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie 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.