Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, May 2002
10 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 6, 20023 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 5, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dickinson, Emmet, Howard, Lyon, Osceola, Winnebago and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 51 more | 5 hr |
| May 6, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Chickasaw, Clayton and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 6, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cedar and 18 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Pottawattamie, Woodbury | 5 hr |
| May 8, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 5 hr |
| May 22, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Woodbury | 6 hr |
| May 22, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mills | 6 hr |
| May 27, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Woodbury | 5 hr |
| May 28, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cerro Gordo and 17 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Howard County4
- Black Hawk County4
- Bremer County4
- Buchanan County4
- Winnebago County3
- Worth County3
- Butler County3
- Chickasaw County3
- Floyd County3
- Grundy County3
- Hardin County3
- Mitchell County3
- Winneshiek County3
- Clayton County3
- Fayette County3
- Delaware County3
- Dubuque County3
- Woodbury County3
- Emmet County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Franklin County2
- Fremont County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hancock County2
- Jasper County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marshall County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Tama County2
- Wright County2
- Allamakee County2
- Benton County2
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Iowa County2
- Jackson County2
- Johnson County2
- Jones County2
- Keokuk County2
- Linn County2
49 more counties
- Mills County2
- Dickinson County1
- Lyon County1
- Osceola County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Audubon County1
- Boone County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Clarke County1
- Dallas County1
- Decatur County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Polk County1
- Ringgold County1
- Sac County1
- Shelby County1
- Story County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Webster County1
- Harrison County1
- Monona County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lee County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington 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.