Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, August 2013
3 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- August 6, 20132 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, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Harrison, Monona, Plymouth, Woodbury | 8 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Cass, Cedar and 38 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Harrison County3
- Monona County2
- Fremont County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Plymouth County1
- Woodbury County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Audubon County1
- Cass County1
- Cedar County1
- Clarke County1
- Dallas County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Des Moines County1
- Guthrie County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Louisa County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Muscatine County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold 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.