Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Iowa, July 1997
7 tornado watches in July 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in July 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- July 2, 19972 tornado 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan and 48 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 1, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dubuque | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Dallas, Fremont and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 16, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 24, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 25, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jackson | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Emmet County4
- Humboldt County4
- Kossuth County4
- Palo Alto County4
- Buena Vista County3
- Calhoun County3
- Cerro Gordo County3
- Cherokee County3
- Clay County3
- Dickinson County3
- Franklin County3
- Hancock County3
- Ida County3
- Lyon County3
- O'Brien County3
- Osceola County3
- Plymouth County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Sac County3
- Sioux County3
- Webster County3
- Winnebago County3
- Woodbury County3
- Worth County3
- Allamakee County2
- Boone County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Carroll County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Clayton County2
- Crawford County2
- Dubuque County2
- Fayette County2
- Floyd County2
- Greene County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Howard County2
- Mitchell County2
30 more counties
- Monona County2
- Story County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Wright County2
- Polk County2
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Buchanan County1
- Cedar County1
- Delaware County1
- Grundy County1
- Jones County1
- Linn County1
- Marshall County1
- Tama County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Audubon County1
- Cass County1
- Dallas County1
- Fremont County1
- Guthrie County1
- Harrison County1
- Madison County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby County1
- Jackson 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.