Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, August 1997
42 severe thunderstorm warnings in August 1997. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 42
- Busiest day
- August 24, 199710 severe thunderstorm warnings
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 3, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jones | 63 min |
| Aug 3, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Dubuque | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Scott | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Scott | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clayton | 52 min |
| Aug 3, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Dubuque | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 44 min |
| Aug 14, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Crawford | 35 min |
| Aug 14, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Carroll, Greene | 47 min |
| Aug 15, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone | 27 min |
| Aug 15, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk, Story | 31 min |
| Aug 15, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton, Story | 36 min |
| Aug 15, 5:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry, Jefferson | 48 min |
| Aug 15, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wapello | 34 min |
| Aug 16, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jackson | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jones | 46 min |
| Aug 16, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Monroe | 36 min |
| Aug 16, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marion | 34 min |
| Aug 16, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 32 min |
| Aug 16, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 32 min |
| Aug 23, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Floyd | 35 min |
| Aug 23, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Bremer | 32 min |
| Aug 23, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Winneshiek | 64 min |
| Aug 23, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clayton | 49 min |
| Aug 23, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Winneshiek | 33 min |
| Aug 23, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk, Grundy | 34 min |
| Aug 23, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clayton | 33 min |
| Aug 23, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Delaware | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Tama | 33 min |
| Aug 23, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Delaware | 50 min |
| Aug 24, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Decatur | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Decatur | 32 min |
| Aug 24, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold | 34 min |
| Aug 24, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold | 18 min |
| Aug 24, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold | 18 min |
| Aug 26, 10:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska | 33 min |
| Aug 30, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jones | 62 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jones County3
- Clayton County3
- Ringgold County3
- Dubuque County2
- Scott County2
- Henry County2
- Polk County2
- Story County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Delaware County2
- Decatur County2
- Clinton County1
- Cedar County1
- Benton County1
- Fremont County1
- Woodbury County1
- Crawford County1
- Carroll County1
- Greene County1
- Boone County1
- Hamilton County1
- Jefferson County1
- Wapello County1
- Jackson County1
- Monroe County1
- Marion County1
- Page County1
- Floyd County1
- Bremer County1
- Allamakee County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Grundy County1
- Tama County1
- Mahaska 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.