Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, May 2003
10 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20034 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 4, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 18 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 4:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis and 23 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Davis, Des Moines, Lee, Van Buren | 6 hr |
| May 4, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Dallas, Decatur and 14 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Fremont and 7 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Buchanan, Clarke and 30 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 14, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Cass, Clarke and 34 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Taylor County7
- Adams County6
- Clarke County6
- Fremont County6
- Montgomery County6
- Page County6
- Ringgold County6
- Union County6
- Appanoose County6
- Adair County5
- Decatur County5
- Mills County5
- Pottawattamie County5
- Davis County5
- Wayne County5
- Cass County4
- Guthrie County4
- Madison County4
- Lee County4
- Lucas County4
- Mahaska County4
- Marion County4
- Monroe County4
- Van Buren County4
- Warren County4
- Audubon County3
- Dallas County3
- Harrison County3
- Monona County3
- Shelby County3
- Henry County3
- Jefferson County3
- Keokuk County3
- Wapello County3
- Washington County3
- Des Moines County3
- Jasper County3
- Polk County3
- Poweshiek County3
- Muscatine County3
25 more counties
- Boone County2
- Carroll County2
- Crawford County2
- Greene County2
- Iowa County2
- Johnson County2
- Louisa County2
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Buchanan County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Linn County1
- Marshall County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Webster County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
- Jackson County1
- Jones County1
- Scott 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.