Alert archive / Iowa / 2003
Weather alerts in Iowa, December 2003
5 weather alerts in December 2003, 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 December 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 5
- Warnings
- 0
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- December 9, 20032 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 3, 2:26 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Greene, Hamilton, Hardin, Jasper, Mahaska and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Dec 8, 5:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | O'Brien, Plymouth, Sioux | 5 hr |
| Dec 9, 10:26 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 9, 3:41 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 61 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 9, 9:16 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Decatur, Jasper, Lucas, Madison and 10 more | 5 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 | |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 5 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jasper County3
- Mahaska County3
- Marion County3
- Polk County3
- Warren County3
- Madison County3
- Taylor County3
- Union County3
- Boone County2
- Greene County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Marshall County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Story County2
- Tama County2
- Webster County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Audubon County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Crawford County2
- Fremont County2
- Guthrie County2
- Harrison County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Sac County2
- Shelby County2
- Appanoose County2
- Clarke County2
- Decatur County2
- Lucas County2
- Monroe County2
- Ringgold County2
- Wayne County2
- O'Brien County1
32 more counties
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Monona County1
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Buchanan County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clay County1
- Dallas County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Grundy County1
- Hancock County1
- Howard County1
- Humboldt County1
- Ida County1
- Iowa County1
- Kossuth County1
- Linn County1
- Mitchell County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Wapello 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.