Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, August 2003
6 severe thunderstorm watches in August 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 August 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- August 1, 20031 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, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Scott and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Crawford, Harrison, Ida, Monona and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 20, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan and 41 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 25, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Buena Vista, Butler and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 25, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 13 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Des Moines County3
- Henry County3
- Jefferson County3
- Louisa County3
- Scott County3
- Van Buren County3
- Franklin County3
- Buchanan County3
- Lee County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Crawford County2
- Harrison County2
- Ida County2
- Monona County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Calhoun County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hancock County2
- Humboldt County2
- Lucas County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Sac County2
- Wayne County2
- Webster County2
- Wright County2
- Allamakee County2
- Benton County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Cedar County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Clayton County2
- Clinton County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Fayette County2
- Floyd County2
- Grundy County2
- Hardin County2
55 more counties
- Howard County2
- Iowa County2
- Jackson County2
- Johnson County2
- Jones County2
- Linn County2
- Mitchell County2
- Muscatine County2
- Washington County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Cherokee County1
- Plymouth County1
- Woodbury County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Audubon County1
- Boone County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Clarke County1
- Dallas County1
- Decatur County1
- Fremont County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Madison County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Polk County1
- Ringgold County1
- Shelby County1
- Story County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Warren County1
- Appanoose County1
- Davis County1
- Jasper County1
- Keokuk County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Tama County1
- Wapello County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Emmet County1
- Kossuth County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth 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.