Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, August 1998
3 severe thunderstorm watches in August 1998. 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 August 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- August 24, 19982 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Clay and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 24, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque and 12 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Butler County2
- Floyd County2
- Grundy County2
- Mitchell County2
- Buchanan County2
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Jackson County2
- Jones County2
- Linn County2
- Scott County2
- Buena Vista County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Ida County1
- Kossuth County1
- Lyon County1
- Marshall County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Plymouth County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Sioux County1
- Story County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
20 more counties
- Wright County1
- Allamakee County1
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Howard County1
- Tama County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Lee County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington County1
Nearby
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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.