Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Iowa, May 2002
4 tornado watches in May 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 May 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 8, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Emmet and 14 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Boone, Clarke and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Winneshiek | 5 hr |
| May 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Decatur, Page, Ringgold, Taylor, Wayne | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Decatur County2
- Ringgold County2
- Taylor County2
- Wayne County2
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Crawford County1
- Dickinson County1
- Emmet County1
- Harrison County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- Monona County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Plymouth County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Sac County1
- Shelby County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Benton County1
- Boone County1
- Clarke County1
- Dallas County1
- Davis County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Jasper County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall 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. Rebuilt daily.