Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Iowa, April 2002
4 tornado watches in April 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 April 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- April 18, 20022 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 18, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 18, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 38 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 36 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Cedar, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa and 18 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jasper County3
- Lucas County3
- Marion County3
- Polk County3
- Cedar County2
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Audubon County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Boone County2
- Cass County2
- Clarke County2
- Dallas County2
- Decatur County2
- Fremont County2
- Greene County2
- Grundy County2
- Guthrie County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Madison County2
- Marshall County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Ringgold County2
- Story County2
- Tama County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Warren County2
- Appanoose County2
- Davis County2
- Mahaska County2
- Monroe County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Wapello County2
34 more counties
- Wayne County2
- Clinton County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
- Jackson County1
- Jones County1
- Allamakee County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Webster County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Carroll County1
- Crawford County1
- Harrison County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington 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.