Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, August 2008
5 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- August 3, 20081 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 2, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cedar, Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 13, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 28, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry and 12 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Louisa County3
- Buena Vista County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Ida County2
- Lyon County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Woodbury County2
- Cedar County2
- Keokuk County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Washington County2
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Lee County2
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Clinton County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Linn County1
- Appanoose County1
- Clarke County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lucas County1
- Monroe County1
- Ringgold County1
- Taylor County1
- Van Buren County1
2 more counties
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.