Alert archive / Iowa / 2002
Weather alerts in Iowa, August 2002
133 weather alerts in August 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 August 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 133
- Warnings
- 123
- Watches
- 10
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 16, 200233 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cerro Gordo, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Hancock, Humboldt and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 11, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Johnson, Washington | 44 min |
| Aug 11, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Iowa | 25 min |
| Aug 11, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Louisa | 50 min |
| Aug 11, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clayton | 48 min |
| Aug 11, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 11, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 38 min |
| Aug 11, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sioux | 46 min |
| Aug 11, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon, Osceola | 43 min |
| Aug 12, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dickinson | 36 min |
| Aug 12, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay, Emmet and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 35 min |
| Aug 12, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet, Palo Alto | 31 min |
| Aug 12, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 37 min |
| Aug 12, 1:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sioux | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 32 min |
| Aug 12, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sioux | 29 min |
| Aug 12, 2:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | O'Brien | 54 min |
| Aug 12, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dickinson | 50 min |
| Aug 12, 2:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 3:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 43 min |
| Aug 12, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jefferson | 43 min |
| Aug 12, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Louisa, Muscatine | 43 min |
| Aug 12, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie | 37 min |
| Aug 12, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar, Jones, Linn | 45 min |
| Aug 12, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adams, Taylor | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold, Union | 51 min |
| Aug 12, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adams | 21 min |
| Aug 12, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer | 49 min |
| Aug 12, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Buchanan | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 11:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills | 32 min |
| Aug 16, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll and 29 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 16, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 30 min |
| Aug 16, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 31 min |
| Aug 16, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 25 min |
| Aug 16, 12:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 53 min |
| Aug 16, 12:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 33 min |
| Aug 16, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 37 min |
| Aug 16, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 41 min |
| Aug 16, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Crawford | 42 min |
| Aug 16, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Ida, Woodbury | 31 min |
| Aug 16, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Sioux | 29 min |
| Aug 16, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Ida, Woodbury | 25 min |
| Aug 16, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sioux | 30 min |
| Aug 16, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Crawford | 50 min |
| Aug 16, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Sac | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 35 min |
| Aug 16, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, O'Brien | 52 min |
| Aug 16, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee | 18 min |
| Aug 16, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Carroll | 34 min |
| Aug 16, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon | 26 min |
| Aug 16, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista | 34 min |
| Aug 16, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 29 min |
| Aug 16, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Palo Alto | 42 min |
| Aug 16, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Osceola | 28 min |
| Aug 16, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dickinson | 37 min |
| Aug 16, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Pocahontas | 59 min |
| Aug 16, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Humboldt | 52 min |
| Aug 16, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet | 37 min |
| Aug 16, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Webster | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wright | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 26 min |
| Aug 16, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Winnebago | 38 min |
| Aug 16, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 52 min |
| Aug 16, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sioux | 45 min |
| Aug 16, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 45 min |
| Aug 16, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | O'Brien | 37 min |
| Aug 16, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 35 min |
| Aug 17, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Palo Alto | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Kossuth | 30 min |
| Aug 17, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 26 min |
| Aug 17, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun and 37 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 39 min |
| Aug 17, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee | 37 min |
| Aug 17, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 32 min |
| Aug 17, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, O'Brien | 45 min |
| Aug 17, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista | 40 min |
| Aug 17, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Ida, Woodbury | 36 min |
| Aug 17, 1:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Palo Alto | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee | 30 min |
| Aug 17, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Ida | 45 min |
| Aug 17, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Sac | 51 min |
| Aug 17, 3:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Calhoun | 40 min |
| Aug 17, 3:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Webster | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 3:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton, Wright | 57 min |
| Aug 17, 3:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone | 37 min |
| Aug 17, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Greene | 30 min |
| Aug 17, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer and 37 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams | 56 min |
| Aug 17, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold, Taylor, Union | 53 min |
| Aug 17, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Franklin, Hardin | 42 min |
| Aug 17, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Story | 45 min |
| Aug 17, 4:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Madison | 39 min |
| Aug 19, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Davis, Wapello | 37 min |
| Aug 19, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont | 30 min |
| Aug 20, 2:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont | 40 min |
| Aug 20, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills, Montgomery | 43 min |
| Aug 20, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont | 45 min |
| Aug 20, 4:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Fremont | 6 hr |
| Aug 20, 6:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills | 41 min |
| Aug 20, 11:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cass | 35 min |
| Aug 20, 11:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair | 47 min |
| Aug 20, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux | 6 hr |
| Aug 21, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 21, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Iowa, Johnson, Washington | 40 min |
| Aug 21, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar | 52 min |
| Aug 21, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jackson | 33 min |
| Aug 21, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Muscatine | 42 min |
| Aug 21, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Muscatine | 40 min |
| Aug 21, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Muscatine | 32 min |
| Aug 21, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Scott | 66 min |
| Aug 21, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills, Pottawattamie | 45 min |
| Aug 21, 11:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones | 9 hr |
| Aug 21, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jackson | 66 min |
| Aug 22, 2:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee | 4 hr |
| Aug 22, 6:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Plymouth | 2 hr |
| Aug 22, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 22, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont | 52 min |
| Aug 22, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 39 min |
| Aug 22, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Fremont | 23 min |
| Aug 22, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 43 min |
| Aug 22, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Shelby | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 12:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Mills | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 12:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Audubon, Dallas, Guthrie, Polk | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 12:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Audubon, Dallas, Guthrie, Polk | 18 hr |
| Aug 23, 12:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Van Buren and 1 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 23, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper | 51 min |
| Aug 23, 2:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Fremont | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Jones | 49 min |
| Aug 26, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Hancock | 17 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 | 109 |
| Tornado Warning | 5 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 8 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 9 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County12
- Fremont County11
- Sioux County10
- Lyon County9
- Plymouth County9
- Mills County9
- O'Brien County8
- Cherokee County8
- Woodbury County8
- Pottawattamie County8
- Muscatine County7
- Dickinson County7
- Palo Alto County7
- Buena Vista County7
- Harrison County7
- Osceola County6
- Adams County6
- Audubon County6
- Ida County6
- Emmet County5
- Washington County5
- Montgomery County5
- Jones County5
- Taylor County5
- Ringgold County5
- Union County5
- Adair County5
- Crawford County5
- Guthrie County5
- Jackson County5
- Polk County5
- Louisa County4
- Hancock County4
- Humboldt County4
- Kossuth County4
- Winnebago County4
- Johnson County4
- Pocahontas County4
- Wright County4
- Jefferson County4
59 more counties
- Cedar County4
- Carroll County4
- Cass County4
- Greene County4
- Madison County4
- Monona County4
- Sac County4
- Shelby County4
- Dallas County4
- Des Moines County3
- Henry County3
- Scott County3
- Van Buren County3
- Cerro Gordo County3
- Worth County3
- Iowa County3
- Franklin County3
- Buchanan County3
- Calhoun County3
- Page County3
- Webster County3
- Boone County3
- Delaware County3
- Dubuque County3
- Story County3
- Clinton County2
- Lee County2
- Clayton County2
- Butler County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Floyd County2
- Howard County2
- Mitchell County2
- Linn County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Bremer County2
- Decatur County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Davis County2
- Jasper County2
- Keokuk County2
- Wapello County2
- Allamakee County1
- Appanoose County1
- Benton County1
- Clarke County1
- Fayette County1
- Grundy County1
- Lucas County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Tama County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Winneshiek 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.