Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Iowa, April 1998
3 tornado watches in April 1998. 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 April 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- April 7, 19981 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Decatur, Fremont and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 25, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Buchanan, Calhoun and 35 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Appanoose County2
- Davis County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Keokuk County2
- Lee County2
- Lucas County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Van Buren County2
- Wapello County2
- Washington County2
- Wayne County2
- Decatur County2
- Guthrie County2
- Ringgold County2
- Union County2
- Des Moines County1
- Louisa County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Audubon County1
- Cass County1
- Fremont County1
- Harrison County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby County1
- Taylor County1
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Buchanan County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clarke County1
- Dallas County1
- Greene 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.