Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, August 2008
56 severe thunderstorm warnings in August 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 56
- Busiest day
- August 4, 200814 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, 3:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Jones, Linn | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones, Linn | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 6:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones | 63 min |
| Aug 3, 7:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton | 44 min |
| Aug 4, 6:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 43 min |
| Aug 4, 6:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Plymouth | 45 min |
| Aug 4, 7:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas | 39 min |
| Aug 4, 7:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Wright | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 8:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo, Franklin | 42 min |
| Aug 4, 8:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Floyd | 64 min |
| Aug 4, 9:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Chickasaw | 54 min |
| Aug 4, 10:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fayette, Winneshiek | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Allamakee | 34 min |
| Aug 4, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Delaware, Dubuque, Jones, Linn | 39 min |
| Aug 4, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Dubuque, Jackson, Jones | 61 min |
| Aug 4, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Dubuque | 28 min |
| Aug 4, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton, Jackson, Jones | 61 min |
| Aug 4, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton, Jackson | 38 min |
| Aug 5, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas, Madison, Polk, Warren | 53 min |
| Aug 5, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas, Jasper, Madison, Marion, Polk, Warren | 43 min |
| Aug 5, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper, Marion | 44 min |
| Aug 5, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper, Mahaska, Poweshiek | 52 min |
| Aug 5, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jefferson, Keokuk, Washington | 74 min |
| Aug 5, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wapello | 31 min |
| Aug 5, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Louisa, Muscatine, Washington | 69 min |
| Aug 5, 6:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Muscatine, Scott | 22 min |
| Aug 5, 6:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Iowa, Johnson, Keokuk, Louisa, Muscatine, Washington | 40 min |
| Aug 9, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton, Jackson, Jones | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar, Muscatine | 37 min |
| Aug 13, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dickinson | 44 min |
| Aug 13, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon, Osceola | 48 min |
| Aug 13, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Dickinson | 32 min |
| Aug 13, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton, Jackson | 25 min |
| Aug 13, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Dickinson, O'Brien | 38 min |
| Aug 13, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Palo Alto, Pocahontas | 62 min |
| Aug 13, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Clay | 49 min |
| Aug 13, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Humboldt, Pocahontas, Sac, Webster | 45 min |
| Aug 13, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Greene, Hamilton, Sac and 1 more | 44 min |
| Aug 13, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Carroll, Greene, Guthrie | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Buchanan | 24 min |
| Aug 14, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo, Franklin | 33 min |
| Aug 14, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Franklin | 21 min |
| Aug 14, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton, Hardin, Story | 39 min |
| Aug 27, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Woodbury | 22 min |
| Aug 27, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 43 min |
| Aug 27, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 54 min |
| Aug 27, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 40 min |
| Aug 27, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 36 min |
| Aug 27, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Crawford | 33 min |
| Aug 28, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 50 min |
| Aug 28, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Ida, Woodbury | 47 min |
| Aug 28, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 34 min |
| Aug 28, 1:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 33 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jones County7
- Jackson County7
- Woodbury County6
- Dubuque County5
- Clinton County5
- Delaware County4
- Muscatine County4
- Linn County3
- Plymouth County3
- Buena Vista County3
- Humboldt County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Franklin County3
- Jasper County3
- Washington County3
- Dickinson County3
- Lyon County3
- Clay County3
- Monona County3
- Buchanan County2
- Cherokee County2
- Kossuth County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Dallas County2
- Madison County2
- Polk County2
- Warren County2
- Marion County2
- Keokuk County2
- Louisa County2
- Cedar County2
- Calhoun County2
- Sac County2
- Webster County2
- Carroll County2
- Greene County2
- Hamilton County2
- Benton County1
- Sioux County1
24 more counties
- Hancock County1
- Wright County1
- Floyd County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Fayette County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Allamakee County1
- Mahaska County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Jefferson County1
- Wapello County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Scott County1
- Iowa County1
- Johnson County1
- Osceola County1
- O'Brien County1
- Boone County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hardin County1
- Story County1
- Crawford County1
- Ida 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.