Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, May 1997

52 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings: 52
Busiest day: May 18, 199717 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
May 2, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont	31 min
May 2, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Page	61 min
May 2, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Decatur	30 min
May 2, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Wayne	33 min
May 2, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Appanoose	49 min
May 7, 10:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Buena Vista	16 min
May 7, 10:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Palo Alto, Pocahontas	44 min
May 7, 10:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Buena Vista, Ida	30 min
May 7, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	64 min
May 7, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Crawford	32 min
May 7, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Shelby	64 min
May 7, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Crawford	17 min
May 7, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Carroll	31 min
May 7, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Mills, Pottawattamie	64 min
May 7, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon	31 min
May 7, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adams	33 min
May 7, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon	36 min
May 7, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Marion, Warren	34 min
May 7, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Dallas, Guthrie	33 min
May 7, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Montgomery, Page	62 min
May 16, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	31 min
May 16, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Polk	33 min
May 16, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Dallas	32 min
May 16, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie	47 min
May 16, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair	33 min
May 16, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Benton, Linn	47 min
May 16, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Page	63 min
May 16, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Union	48 min
May 16, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Ringgold, Taylor	47 min
May 16, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Clarke	47 min
May 16, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Jefferson	46 min
May 18, 2:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adams	31 min
May 18, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Benton	50 min
May 18, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Tama	27 min
May 18, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Linn	50 min
May 18, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Winneshiek	64 min
May 18, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Tama	34 min
May 18, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Delaware	51 min
May 18, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Tama	19 min
May 18, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Dubuque	49 min
May 18, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clinton, Jackson	47 min
May 18, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Cedar, Jones	47 min
May 18, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Iowa, Johnson	63 min
May 18, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Linn	49 min
May 18, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Dubuque	49 min
May 18, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clinton	46 min
May 18, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Delaware	47 min
May 18, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Dubuque	50 min
May 18, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clinton	51 min
May 18, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Scott	49 min
May 18, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Louisa	49 min
May 18, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Des Moines, Lee	48 min

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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.