Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, April 2003
5 severe thunderstorm watches in April 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- April 30, 20032 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 3, 9:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Decatur, Monroe, Ringgold, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lyon, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux | 6 hr |
| Apr 18, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Harrison, Ida, Monona, Pottawattamie, Sac and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 29, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Crawford County2
- Harrison County2
- Monona County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Appanoose County1
- Decatur County1
- Monroe County1
- Ringgold County1
- Wayne County1
- Lyon County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Ida County1
- Sac County1
- Woodbury County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Audubon County1
- Boone County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Dallas County1
- Fremont County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Madison County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Polk County1
- Story County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Des Moines County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott 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.