Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Iowa, June 2002
4 tornado watches in June 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 June 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- June 11, 20021 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 11, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Buena Vista, Butler and 30 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Crawford County3
- Fremont County3
- Harrison County3
- Mills County3
- Montgomery County3
- Page County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Shelby County3
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Audubon County2
- Boone County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Dallas County2
- Greene County2
- Guthrie County2
- Madison County2
- Monona County2
- Union County2
- Clarke County1
- Decatur County1
- Lucas County1
- Marion County1
- Polk County1
- Ringgold County1
- Story County1
- Taylor County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Calhoun County1
- Ida County1
- Sac County1
- Webster County1
- Woodbury County1
- Allamakee County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Buchanan County1
- Buena Vista County1
31 more counties
- Butler County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Cherokee County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clay County1
- Clayton County1
- Delaware County1
- Dickinson County1
- Emmet County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Howard County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Lyon County1
- Mitchell County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Plymouth County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sioux County1
- Winnebago County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Worth County1
- Wright 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.