Alert archive / Iowa / 2002
Weather alerts in Iowa, April 2002
137 weather alerts in April 2002, 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 April 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 137
- Warnings
- 126
- Watches
- 11
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- April 18, 200268 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 5 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, O'Brien | 24 min |
| Apr 16, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 40 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 16, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon, O'Brien, Sioux | 26 min |
| Apr 16, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Osceola | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison, Monona | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet, Palo Alto | 43 min |
| Apr 16, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Pocahontas | 37 min |
| Apr 16, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Kossuth | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hancock, Winnebago | 39 min |
| Apr 16, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 52 min |
| Apr 16, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 57 min |
| Apr 16, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 26 min |
| Apr 16, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 29 min |
| Apr 16, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 57 min |
| Apr 16, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet, Palo Alto, Pocahontas | 41 min |
| Apr 16, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Shelby | 37 min |
| Apr 16, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon, Carroll | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 19 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 17, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 51 min |
| Apr 17, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison, Monona | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Harrison, Shelby | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon | 66 min |
| Apr 17, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Shelby | 32 min |
| Apr 17, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Carroll, Crawford | 59 min |
| Apr 17, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Shelby | 15 min |
| Apr 17, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon | 45 min |
| Apr 17, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Carroll, Greene | 66 min |
| Apr 17, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Audubon | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 10:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Carroll | 36 min |
| Apr 17, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Guthrie | 47 min |
| Apr 17, 11:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Greene | 40 min |
| Apr 17, 11:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Boone | 41 min |
| Apr 17, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Palo Alto, Pocahontas | 43 min |
| Apr 18, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Hamilton, Story | 59 min |
| Apr 18, 12:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Boone | 25 min |
| Apr 18, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Palo Alto | 47 min |
| Apr 18, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Kossuth | 56 min |
| Apr 18, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton, Hardin | 61 min |
| Apr 18, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Buena Vista, Butler and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 18, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fayette | 30 min |
| Apr 18, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Butler, Franklin | 56 min |
| Apr 18, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Winneshiek | 58 min |
| Apr 18, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Bremer | 41 min |
| Apr 18, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fayette | 38 min |
| Apr 18, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Chickasaw | 42 min |
| Apr 18, 2:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Allamakee | 55 min |
| Apr 18, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fayette | 47 min |
| Apr 18, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Howard | 46 min |
| Apr 18, 3:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Winneshiek | 56 min |
| Apr 18, 4:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Allamakee | 44 min |
| Apr 18, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Dubuque | 47 min |
| Apr 18, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jones | 48 min |
| Apr 18, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar, Johnson, Muscatine | 38 min |
| Apr 18, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 18, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jackson | 41 min |
| Apr 18, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 38 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 18, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton | 31 min |
| Apr 18, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Floyd | 44 min |
| Apr 18, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 24 min |
| Apr 18, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Chickasaw | 63 min |
| Apr 18, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adams | 45 min |
| Apr 18, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Montgomery | 18 min |
| Apr 18, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Guthrie | 38 min |
| Apr 18, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton | 35 min |
| Apr 18, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas | 53 min |
| Apr 18, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hardin | 37 min |
| Apr 18, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Chickasaw | 50 min |
| Apr 18, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone | 33 min |
| Apr 18, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Greene | 26 min |
| Apr 18, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Story | 34 min |
| Apr 18, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone | 43 min |
| Apr 18, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fayette, Winneshiek | 56 min |
| Apr 18, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Howard, Winneshiek | 67 min |
| Apr 18, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Taylor | 52 min |
| Apr 18, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 60 min |
| Apr 18, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Grundy, Hardin | 56 min |
| Apr 18, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Guthrie, Madison | 24 min |
| Apr 18, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Dallas | 61 min |
| Apr 18, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Story | 42 min |
| Apr 18, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Allamakee | 59 min |
| Apr 18, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Chickasaw | 41 min |
| Apr 18, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold | 50 min |
| Apr 18, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 60 min |
| Apr 18, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Winneshiek | 56 min |
| Apr 18, 6:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Polk | 23 min |
| Apr 18, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Madison, Warren | 65 min |
| Apr 18, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper | 58 min |
| Apr 18, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marshall | 26 min |
| Apr 18, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Jasper | 56 min |
| Apr 18, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fayette | 65 min |
| Apr 18, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Black Hawk | 50 min |
| Apr 18, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Decatur, Ringgold | 51 min |
| Apr 18, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Clayton | 56 min |
| Apr 18, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper, Marion | 52 min |
| Apr 18, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton | 34 min |
| Apr 18, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Benton | 35 min |
| Apr 18, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Warren | 33 min |
| Apr 18, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Buchanan | 36 min |
| Apr 18, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Poweshiek | 64 min |
| Apr 18, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Linn | 33 min |
| Apr 18, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Iowa | 48 min |
| Apr 18, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Davis and 25 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 18, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Jones, Linn | 35 min |
| Apr 18, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Dubuque | 31 min |
| Apr 18, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Johnson | 46 min |
| Apr 18, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska | 50 min |
| Apr 18, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jackson | 44 min |
| Apr 18, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Cedar | 32 min |
| Apr 18, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton, Jones | 45 min |
| Apr 18, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Scott | 40 min |
| Apr 18, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jackson | 51 min |
| Apr 24, 6:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 33 min |
| Apr 24, 7:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 32 min |
| Apr 24, 7:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Pocahontas | 35 min |
| Apr 24, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 24, 7:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills, Pottawattamie | 32 min |
| Apr 24, 8:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon, Carroll | 37 min |
| Apr 24, 8:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 8:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont | 50 min |
| Apr 24, 8:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Montgomery, Pottawattamie | 42 min |
| Apr 24, 8:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 51 min |
| Apr 24, 9:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Clarke | 32 min |
| Apr 24, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 24, 10:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold | 38 min |
| Apr 24, 10:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Decatur | 44 min |
| Apr 24, 10:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Monroe, Wapello | 36 min |
| Apr 24, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Muscatine | 30 min |
| Apr 24, 11:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Davis | 42 min |
| Apr 24, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Scott | 50 min |
| Apr 24, 11:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 36 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Union | 24 min |
| Apr 27, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Madison | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Cedar, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa and 18 more | 4 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 | 102 |
| Tornado Warning | 24 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 7 |
| Tornado Watch | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Audubon County9
- Boone County9
- Carroll County8
- Harrison County8
- Pottawattamie County8
- Fayette County8
- Winneshiek County8
- Greene County7
- Guthrie County7
- Madison County7
- Mills County7
- Pocahontas County7
- Shelby County7
- Allamakee County7
- Chickasaw County7
- Story County7
- Jasper County7
- Polk County7
- Dallas County6
- Fremont County6
- Hamilton County6
- Montgomery County6
- Page County6
- Palo Alto County6
- Dubuque County6
- Hardin County6
- Jones County6
- Decatur County6
- Marion County6
- Ringgold County6
- Davis County6
- Mahaska County6
- Sioux County5
- Adams County5
- Taylor County5
- Union County5
- Black Hawk County5
- Grundy County5
- Howard County5
- Cedar County5
59 more counties
- Muscatine County5
- Clinton County5
- Jackson County5
- Scott County5
- Lucas County5
- Warren County5
- Poweshiek County5
- Monroe County5
- Wapello County5
- Lyon County4
- Plymouth County4
- O'Brien County4
- Adair County4
- Cass County4
- Cerro Gordo County4
- Emmet County4
- Kossuth County4
- Monona County4
- Worth County4
- Benton County4
- Bremer County4
- Buchanan County4
- Butler County4
- Delaware County4
- Floyd County4
- Franklin County4
- Linn County4
- Marshall County4
- Johnson County4
- Louisa County4
- Clarke County4
- Appanoose County4
- Jefferson County4
- Keokuk County4
- Van Buren County4
- Wayne County4
- Woodbury County3
- Cherokee County3
- Clay County3
- Crawford County3
- Hancock County3
- Osceola County3
- Webster County3
- Winnebago County3
- Wright County3
- Clayton County3
- Mitchell County3
- Tama County3
- Iowa County3
- Des Moines County3
- Henry County3
- Lee County3
- Washington County3
- Buena Vista County2
- Calhoun County2
- Dickinson County2
- Humboldt County2
- Ida County1
- Sac 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.