Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Iowa, July 2003
14 tornado watches in July 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 14
- Busiest day
- July 6, 20032 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 4, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cherokee and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clayton, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 9:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista and 62 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Jackson, Johnson and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 65 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Buchanan, Cedar, Clayton, Clinton, Delaware and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Floyd and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 14, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Fayette and 12 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 20, 2:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Buena Vista, Carroll, Cass and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 20, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan and 42 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 20, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 16 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Audubon County6
- Carroll County6
- Crawford County6
- Fremont County6
- Guthrie County6
- Harrison County6
- Mills County6
- Page County6
- Pottawattamie County6
- Shelby County6
- Wright County6
- Buena Vista County5
- Cass County5
- Cherokee County5
- Clay County5
- Dickinson County5
- Greene County5
- Hancock County5
- Ida County5
- Kossuth County5
- Monona County5
- Montgomery County5
- O'Brien County5
- Osceola County5
- Sac County5
- Webster County5
- Winnebago County5
- Woodbury County5
- Worth County5
- Butler County5
- Floyd County5
- Franklin County5
- Grundy County5
- Hamilton County5
- Hardin County5
- Calhoun County4
- Emmet County4
- Humboldt County4
- Lyon County4
- Palo Alto County4
58 more counties
- Plymouth County4
- Pocahontas County4
- Sioux County4
- Cedar County4
- Clinton County4
- Jackson County4
- Jones County4
- Louisa County4
- Muscatine County4
- Scott County4
- Adair County4
- Adams County4
- Boone County4
- Cerro Gordo County4
- Dallas County4
- Decatur County4
- Madison County4
- Mitchell County4
- Ringgold County4
- Taylor County4
- Union County4
- Bremer County4
- Chickasaw County4
- Clayton County3
- Delaware County3
- Des Moines County3
- Dubuque County3
- Appanoose County3
- Clarke County3
- Jasper County3
- Lucas County3
- Mahaska County3
- Marion County3
- Marshall County3
- Monroe County3
- Polk County3
- Poweshiek County3
- Story County3
- Tama County3
- Warren County3
- Wayne County3
- Henry County3
- Johnson County3
- Linn County3
- Washington County3
- Black Hawk County3
- Allamakee County3
- Fayette County3
- Lee County2
- Benton County2
- Davis County2
- Howard County2
- Iowa County2
- Keokuk County2
- Wapello County2
- Buchanan County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Jefferson 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.