Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, May 2002
70 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 70
- Busiest day
- May 6, 200231 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 1, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Des Moines | 41 min |
| May 5, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 37 min |
| May 5, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 34 min |
| May 5, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison, Shelby | 32 min |
| May 5, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon | 45 min |
| May 5, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 35 min |
| May 5, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 31 min |
| May 5, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon, Cass | 47 min |
| May 5, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon | 45 min |
| May 5, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 28 min |
| May 5, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Crawford | 47 min |
| May 5, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dickinson, Ida, Osceola | 27 min |
| May 5, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills | 40 min |
| May 5, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 32 min |
| May 5, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dickinson | 21 min |
| May 5, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Shelby | 49 min |
| May 5, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 32 min |
| May 5, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Sac | 44 min |
| May 5, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Ida | 43 min |
| May 5, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet | 39 min |
| May 5, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Palo Alto | 38 min |
| May 5, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 23 min |
| May 5, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Crawford | 46 min |
| May 5, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 42 min |
| May 5, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Kossuth | 52 min |
| May 5, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee | 22 min |
| May 5, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 45 min |
| May 5, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 27 min |
| May 5, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Greene | 54 min |
| May 5, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Carroll | 64 min |
| May 5, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Ida | 47 min |
| May 5, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Crawford | 28 min |
| May 5, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista | 27 min |
| May 5, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Sac | 34 min |
| May 5, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Pocahontas | 42 min |
| May 6, 4:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 35 min |
| May 6, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Howard, Winneshiek | 40 min |
| May 6, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Winneshiek | 16 min |
| May 6, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Allamakee | 54 min |
| May 6, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Dubuque | 39 min |
| May 6, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Tama | 34 min |
| May 6, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Tama | 23 min |
| May 8, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Floyd | 44 min |
| May 8, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 29 min |
| May 8, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Howard, Mitchell | 54 min |
| May 8, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Chickasaw | 50 min |
| May 8, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adams, Taylor | 39 min |
| May 8, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Taylor | 46 min |
| May 8, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Howard, Winneshiek | 63 min |
| May 8, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold | 48 min |
| May 8, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Clarke | 41 min |
| May 8, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Decatur, Warren | 39 min |
| May 8, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Allamakee | 53 min |
| May 8, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marion | 65 min |
| May 8, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wayne | 47 min |
| May 8, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Lucas, Monroe | 44 min |
| May 8, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper, Mahaska, Poweshiek | 49 min |
| May 8, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton, Jackson | 60 min |
| May 8, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Johnson | 39 min |
| May 13, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton | 41 min |
| May 13, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Scott | 41 min |
| May 16, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Ida | 34 min |
| May 28, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 23 min |
| May 28, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer | 54 min |
| May 28, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Story | 40 min |
| May 28, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Story | 39 min |
| May 28, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk | 33 min |
| May 30, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Linn | 46 min |
| May 30, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Johnson | 23 min |
| May 30, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jackson | 32 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pottawattamie County5
- Ida County4
- Audubon County3
- Monona County3
- Crawford County3
- Howard County3
- Winneshiek County3
- Harrison County2
- Shelby County2
- Dickinson County2
- Clay County2
- Sac County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Page County2
- Allamakee County2
- Tama County2
- Taylor County2
- Clinton County2
- Jackson County2
- Johnson County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Story County2
- Des Moines County1
- Cass County1
- Osceola County1
- Fremont County1
- Mills County1
- Emmet County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Woodbury County1
- Kossuth County1
- Cherokee County1
- Greene County1
- Carroll County1
- Calhoun County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Dubuque County1
- Floyd County1
- Mitchell County1
- Chickasaw 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.