Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, August 2002
8 severe thunderstorm watches in August 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 August 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- August 12, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 11, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 12, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay, Emmet and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll and 29 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun and 37 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer and 37 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 21, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 22, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 18 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Muscatine County3
- Cherokee County3
- Woodbury County3
- Buena Vista County3
- Clay County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Adair County3
- Adams County3
- Audubon County3
- Carroll County3
- Cass County3
- Crawford County3
- Fremont County3
- Greene County3
- Guthrie County3
- Harrison County3
- Madison County3
- Mills County3
- Monona County3
- Montgomery County3
- Page County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Ringgold County3
- Shelby County3
- Taylor County3
- Union County3
- Clinton County2
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Louisa County2
- Scott County2
- Van Buren County2
- Dickinson County2
- Lyon County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Butler County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
59 more counties
- Chickasaw County2
- Emmet County2
- Floyd County2
- Franklin County2
- Hancock County2
- Howard County2
- Humboldt County2
- Kossuth County2
- Mitchell County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Wright County2
- Calhoun County2
- Decatur County2
- Ida County2
- Sac County2
- Boone County2
- Dallas County2
- Cedar County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Jones County2
- Polk County2
- Story County2
- Washington County2
- Lee County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Webster County1
- Allamakee County1
- Appanoose County1
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Buchanan County1
- Clarke County1
- Clayton County1
- Davis County1
- Fayette County1
- Grundy County1
- Iowa County1
- Jasper County1
- Keokuk County1
- Linn County1
- Lucas County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Tama County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Winneshiek 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.