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Tornado Watches in Iowa, 2002

19 tornado watches in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
19
Busiest month
April4 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 18, 20022 tornado watches

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 18, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 3 more5 hr
Apr 18, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Allamakee, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 38 more5 hr
Apr 27, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 36 more5 hr
Apr 27, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAppanoose, Cedar, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa and 18 more4 hr
May 5, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Emmet and 14 more7 hr
May 8, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Boone, Clarke and 22 more6 hr
May 8, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Winneshiek5 hr
May 11, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDecatur, Page, Ringgold, Taylor, Wayne5 hr
Jun 11, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCrawford, Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page and 2 more5 hr
Jun 12, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 24 more5 hr
Jun 20, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 19 more6 hr
Jun 21, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Buena Vista, Butler and 30 more6 hr
Jul 24, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Ida and 7 more4 hr
Jul 26, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Appanoose, Clarke, Decatur, Fremont, Lucas and 8 more5 hr
Jul 28, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay, Emmet, Floyd, Hancock and 6 more5 hr
Jul 28, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Crawford and 13 more5 hr
Aug 3, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCerro Gordo, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Hancock, Humboldt and 8 more5 hr
Aug 20, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux6 hr
Sep 18, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 48 more6 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

58 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 18, 20022tornado watches
  2. May 8, 20022tornado watches
  3. July 28, 20022tornado watches
  4. April 27, 20021tornado watches
  5. April 28, 20021tornado watches
  6. May 5, 20021tornado watches
  7. May 12, 20021tornado watches
  8. June 11, 20021tornado watches
  9. June 12, 20021tornado watches
  10. June 20, 20021tornado watches
  11. June 21, 20021tornado watches
  12. July 25, 20021tornado watches

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. Rebuilt daily.