Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Iowa, June 1998
16 tornado watches in June 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 June 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 16
- Busiest day
- June 29, 19985 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 13, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Appanoose, Davis, Decatur, Fremont, Mills and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Des Moines, Henry and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allamakee, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Mills | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Monona, Plymouth, Woodbury | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 24, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Ida and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 24, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 11:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 35 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 55 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clinton, Jackson, Scott | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Mills | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Cass, Clarke and 31 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fremont County6
- Cerro Gordo County6
- Webster County6
- Mills County5
- Montgomery County5
- Story County5
- Boone County5
- Buena Vista County5
- Calhoun County5
- Carroll County5
- Crawford County5
- Floyd County5
- Franklin County5
- Greene County5
- Hamilton County5
- Hancock County5
- Humboldt County5
- Ida County5
- Mitchell County5
- Pocahontas County5
- Sac County5
- Worth County5
- Wright County5
- Monona County5
- Plymouth County5
- Woodbury County5
- Adair County4
- Adams County4
- Cass County4
- Page County4
- Ringgold County4
- Taylor County4
- Union County4
- Davis County4
- Jasper County4
- Marshall County4
- Bremer County4
- Butler County4
- Chickasaw County4
- Grundy County4
59 more counties
- Hardin County4
- Howard County4
- Winneshiek County4
- Cherokee County4
- Clay County4
- Dickinson County4
- Emmet County4
- Kossuth County4
- Lyon County4
- O'Brien County4
- Osceola County4
- Palo Alto County4
- Sioux County4
- Winnebago County4
- Appanoose County3
- Decatur County3
- Wayne County3
- Benton County3
- Clinton County3
- Des Moines County3
- Henry County3
- Iowa County3
- Jefferson County3
- Johnson County3
- Keokuk County3
- Lee County3
- Louisa County3
- Mahaska County3
- Marion County3
- Monroe County3
- Poweshiek County3
- Scott County3
- Tama County3
- Van Buren County3
- Wapello County3
- Washington County3
- Allamakee County3
- Audubon County3
- Black Hawk County3
- Clayton County3
- Dallas County3
- Fayette County3
- Guthrie County3
- Madison County3
- Polk County3
- Shelby County3
- Pottawattamie County2
- Cedar County2
- Jones County2
- Linn County2
- Muscatine County2
- Buchanan County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Clarke County2
- Jackson County2
- Lucas County2
- Warren County2
- Harrison 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.