Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Iowa, May 1997
2 tornado watches in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- May 18, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk and 57 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clinton, Scott | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clinton County2
- Scott County2
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Allamakee County1
- Appanoose County1
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Buchanan County1
- Butler County1
- Cedar County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clarke County1
- Clayton County1
- Dallas County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Delaware County1
- Des Moines County1
- Dubuque County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Henry County1
- Howard County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Linn County1
23 more counties
- Louisa County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Mitchell County1
- Monroe County1
- Muscatine County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Van Buren County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Worth 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.