Alert archive / Iowa / 2002
Weather alerts in Iowa, October 2002
31 weather alerts in October 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 October 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 31
- Warnings
- 28
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- October 1, 200219 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 30, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 41 min |
| Oct 1, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills | 23 min |
| Oct 1, 10:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Keokuk | 36 min |
| Oct 1, 10:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar, Johnson, Linn | 33 min |
| Oct 1, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 40 min |
| Oct 1, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sioux | 39 min |
| Oct 1, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 44 min |
| Oct 1, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sioux | 26 min |
| Oct 1, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 1, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | O'Brien | 41 min |
| Oct 1, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 40 min |
| Oct 1, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 6 hr |
| Oct 1, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Palo Alto | 46 min |
| Oct 1, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 40 min |
| Oct 1, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 35 min |
| Oct 1, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison, Shelby | 42 min |
| Oct 1, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills | 50 min |
| Oct 1, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Harrison | 45 min |
| Oct 1, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Harrison | 45 min |
| Oct 1, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Crawford | 53 min |
| Oct 1, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 50 min |
| Oct 1, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Carroll | 44 min |
| Oct 1, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Montgomery | 40 min |
| Oct 1, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Montgomery | 40 min |
| Oct 1, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair | 26 min |
| Oct 1, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 36 more | 4 hr |
| Oct 1, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Madison | 31 min |
| Oct 1, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jefferson, Van Buren | 66 min |
| Oct 4, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Dallas, Greene | 25 min |
| Oct 4, 3:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Story | 22 min |
| Oct 4, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Franklin | 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 | 26 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Harrison County4
- Mills County3
- Lyon County3
- Sioux County3
- Adair County3
- Boone County3
- Carroll County3
- Dallas County3
- Greene County3
- Madison County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Story County3
- Montgomery County3
- Page County2
- Fremont County2
- Keokuk County2
- Audubon County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cass County2
- Clay County2
- Crawford County2
- Franklin County2
- Guthrie County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Jasper County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Monona County2
- O'Brien County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Polk County2
- Sac County2
- Shelby County2
- Warren County2
- Webster County2
- Jefferson County2
- Van Buren County2
- Cedar County1
- Johnson County1
36 more counties
- Linn County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Cherokee County1
- Dickinson County1
- Emmet County1
- Hancock County1
- Humboldt County1
- Ida County1
- Kossuth County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Winnebago County1
- Woodbury County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Clarke County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Grundy County1
- Iowa County1
- Lucas County1
- Mahaska County1
- Monroe County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold County1
- Tama County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Wapello County1
- Wayne 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.