Alert archive / Iowa / 2002
Weather alerts in Iowa, September 2002
49 weather alerts in September 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 September 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 49
- Warnings
- 45
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- September 19, 200224 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, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 45 min |
| Sep 1, 11:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee | 56 min |
| Sep 1, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 1, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Emmet and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 18, 2:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 28 min |
| Sep 18, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 48 min |
| Sep 18, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 31 min |
| Sep 18, 4:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 27 min |
| Sep 18, 4:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon, Sioux | 35 min |
| Sep 18, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jones | 50 min |
| Sep 18, 2:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Jones | 36 min |
| Sep 18, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Clinton, Jackson | 46 min |
| Sep 18, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton | 43 min |
| Sep 18, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 29 min |
| Sep 18, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Taylor | 49 min |
| Sep 18, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 48 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 18, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 39 min |
| Sep 18, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adams | 64 min |
| Sep 18, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 30 min |
| Sep 18, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Taylor | 44 min |
| Sep 18, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair, Cass | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Sioux | 36 min |
| Sep 18, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold, Union | 63 min |
| Sep 18, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Guthrie | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Ringgold, Union | 46 min |
| Sep 18, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Greene | 54 min |
| Sep 18, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas | 50 min |
| Sep 18, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Clarke | 47 min |
| Sep 18, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair | 58 min |
| Sep 18, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone | 63 min |
| Sep 18, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Clarke | 47 min |
| Sep 18, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Clarke | 47 min |
| Sep 18, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Webster | 53 min |
| Sep 18, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Warren | 34 min |
| Sep 18, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Warren | 48 min |
| Sep 18, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Warren | 46 min |
| Sep 18, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Lucas | 37 min |
| Sep 18, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Madison | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 29 min |
| Sep 18, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Lucas, Monroe | 53 min |
| Sep 18, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marion | 45 min |
| Sep 18, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 18, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Franklin | 64 min |
| Sep 18, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Marion | 58 min |
| Sep 18, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 33 min |
| Sep 18, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Poweshiek | 39 min |
| Sep 24, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 31 min |
| Sep 25, 12:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison, Pottawattamie | 64 min |
| Sep 29, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk | 27 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 | 39 |
| Tornado Warning | 6 |
| 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.
- Plymouth County5
- Lyon County5
- Clarke County5
- Warren County5
- Sioux County4
- Page County4
- Taylor County4
- Adair County4
- Ringgold County4
- Union County4
- Cherokee County3
- Franklin County3
- Harrison County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Adams County3
- Boone County3
- Dallas County3
- Guthrie County3
- Madison County3
- Polk County3
- Lucas County3
- Marion County3
- Buena Vista County2
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Ida County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Woodbury County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Emmet County2
- Hancock County2
- Humboldt County2
- Kossuth County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Wright County2
- Monona County2
49 more counties
- Jones County2
- Clinton County2
- Cass County2
- Decatur County2
- Greene County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Story County2
- Webster County2
- Monroe County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Mahaska County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Allamakee County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Jackson County1
- Audubon County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Crawford County1
- Fremont County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Sac County1
- Shelby County1
- Appanoose County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Davis County1
- Delaware County1
- Grundy County1
- Iowa County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Keokuk County1
- Linn County1
- Marshall County1
- Tama County1
- Wapello County1
- Washington 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. Rebuilt daily.