Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings / 2002
Tornado Warnings in Iowa, April 2002
24 tornado warnings in April 2002. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.
Tornado Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 24
- Busiest day
- April 18, 200212 tornado warnings
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 17, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Harrison, Shelby | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Shelby | 32 min |
| Apr 17, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Audubon | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 10:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Carroll | 36 min |
| Apr 17, 11:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Greene | 40 min |
| Apr 17, 11:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Boone | 41 min |
| Apr 18, 12:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Boone | 25 min |
| Apr 18, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Chickasaw | 50 min |
| Apr 18, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Howard, Winneshiek | 67 min |
| Apr 18, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Grundy, Hardin | 56 min |
| Apr 18, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Dallas | 61 min |
| Apr 18, 6:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Polk | 23 min |
| Apr 18, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Jasper | 56 min |
| Apr 18, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Black Hawk | 50 min |
| Apr 18, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Decatur, Ringgold | 51 min |
| Apr 18, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Benton | 35 min |
| Apr 18, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Buchanan | 36 min |
| Apr 18, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Iowa | 48 min |
| Apr 18, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Jones, Linn | 35 min |
| Apr 18, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Johnson | 46 min |
| Apr 18, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Cedar | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Union | 24 min |
| Apr 27, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Madison | 32 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Shelby County2
- Boone County2
- Harrison County1
- Audubon County1
- Carroll County1
- Greene County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Howard County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Grundy County1
- Hardin County1
- Dallas County1
- Polk County1
- Jasper County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Decatur County1
- Ringgold County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Iowa County1
- Jones County1
- Linn County1
- Johnson County1
- Cedar County1
- Fremont County1
- Mills County1
- Union County1
- Madison 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. Rebuilt daily.