Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, April 2002
7 severe thunderstorm watches in April 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- April 17, 20022 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 5 hr |
| Apr 16, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 40 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 17, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 19 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 18, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Buena Vista, Butler and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 18, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Davis and 25 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 24, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 24, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee and 3 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lyon County3
- Plymouth County3
- Sioux County3
- Cerro Gordo County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Worth County3
- Buchanan County3
- Delaware County3
- Dubuque County3
- Davis County3
- Jefferson County3
- Keokuk County3
- Van Buren County3
- Woodbury County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Audubon County2
- Boone County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Dallas County2
- Dickinson County2
- Emmet County2
- Fremont County2
- Greene County2
- Guthrie County2
- Hancock County2
- Humboldt County2
- Kossuth County2
- Madison County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Page County2
- Palo Alto County2
59 more counties
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Webster County2
- Winnebago County2
- Wright County2
- Allamakee County2
- Benton County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Clayton County2
- Fayette County2
- Floyd County2
- Franklin County2
- Grundy County2
- Howard County2
- Jones County2
- Linn County2
- Mitchell County2
- Story County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Appanoose County2
- Decatur County2
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Lee County2
- Louisa County2
- Lucas County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Wapello County2
- Washington County2
- Wayne County2
- Crawford County1
- Hamilton County1
- Harrison County1
- Ida County1
- Monona County1
- Sac County1
- Hardin County1
- Marshall County1
- Tama County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Johnson County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Clarke County1
- Jasper County1
- Polk County1
- Ringgold County1
- Warren 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.