Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, August 2001
5 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2001. 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 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- August 2, 20011 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 2, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Ida and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 22, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clinton, Jackson, Scott | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux | 5 hr |
| Aug 30, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Van Buren | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Lee County2
- Dickinson County2
- Lyon County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Louisa County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Emmet County1
- Ida County1
- Kossuth County1
- Monona County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Winnebago County1
- Woodbury County1
- Clinton County1
- Jackson County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren 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.