Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Iowa, July 2002
4 tornado watches in July 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 July 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- July 28, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Ida and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 26, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Decatur, Fremont, Lucas and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 28, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay, Emmet, Floyd, Hancock and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 28, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Crawford and 13 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Buena Vista County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Crawford County2
- Ida County2
- Monona County2
- Woodbury County2
- Fremont County2
- Mills County2
- Dickinson County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Clarke County1
- Decatur County1
- Lucas County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Ringgold County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Wayne County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Emmet County1
- Floyd County1
- Hancock County1
- Howard County1
- Kossuth County1
- Mitchell County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Audubon County1
- Calhoun 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.