Alert archive / Iowa / 2003
Weather alerts in Iowa, November 2003
11 weather alerts in November 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 November 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 11
- Warnings
- 6
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- November 17, 20039 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 6:42 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Boone, Clarke, Dallas, Decatur and 14 more | 3 hr |
| Nov 17, 12:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk, Warren | 30 min |
| Nov 17, 2:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton | 23 min |
| Nov 17, 2:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Franklin, Wright | 34 min |
| Nov 17, 3:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo | 27 min |
| Nov 17, 3:07 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Harrison, Mills and 5 more | 113 min |
| Nov 17, 3:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 17, 5:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OAX | Mills | 33 min |
| Nov 17, 5:42 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mills | 93 min |
| Nov 17, 6:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 26 min |
| Nov 22, 10:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dickinson, Lyon, Osceola, Sioux | 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 | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 4 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mills County4
- Adams County3
- Taylor County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Adair County2
- Polk County2
- Warren County2
- Cass County2
- Fremont County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Boone County1
- Clarke County1
- Dallas County1
- Decatur County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Jasper County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Ringgold County1
- Story County1
- Union County1
- Wayne County1
- Hamilton County1
- Franklin County1
- Wright County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Audubon County1
- Harrison County1
- Shelby County1
- Dickinson County1
- Lyon County1
- Osceola County1
- Sioux 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.