Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, May 1997
4 severe thunderstorm watches 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 7, 19972 severe thunderstorm watches
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 7, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 22 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 44 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fremont, Mills | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clarke County3
- Decatur County3
- Fremont County3
- Mills County3
- Ringgold County3
- Taylor County3
- Union County3
- Warren County3
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Audubon County2
- Boone County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Crawford County2
- Dallas County2
- Greene County2
- Guthrie County2
- Harrison County2
- Madison County2
- Marshall County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Polk County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Story County2
- Iowa County2
- Jasper County2
- Johnson County2
- Keokuk County2
- Lucas County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Wayne County2
- Monona County1
- Appanoose County1
- Davis County1
23 more counties
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lee County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren County1
- Wapello County1
- Washington County1
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Buchanan County1
- Calhoun County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Jones County1
- Linn County1
- Tama County1
- Webster 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.