Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Iowa, June 1997
2 tornado watches in June 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 June 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- June 15, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Cedar, Clarke and 39 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Clarke County2
- Dallas County2
- Decatur County2
- Hardin County2
- Jasper County2
- Lucas County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Polk County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Ringgold County2
- Story County2
- Tama County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Allamakee County1
- Audubon County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Fremont County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie County1
40 more counties
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Howard County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Mills County1
- Mitchell County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Sac County1
- Shelby County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Appanoose County1
- Benton County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Davis County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Linn County1
- Louisa County1
- Mahaska County1
- Monroe County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren County1
- Wapello County1
- Washington County1
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.