Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, September 2002
3 severe thunderstorm watches in September 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 September 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- September 1, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 1, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Emmet and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 18, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 33 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
- Allamakee County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Emmet County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Hancock County1
- Howard County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Mitchell County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Winnebago County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Buchanan County1
- Clarke County1
- Dallas County1
30 more counties
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Delaware County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Iowa County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Keokuk County1
- Linn County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne 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.