Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Iowa, June 2003
8 tornado watches in June 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 June 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- June 24, 20033 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 9, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Harrison, Ida, Monona, Plymouth and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Harrison and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux | 4 hr |
| Jun 23, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cerro Gordo and 24 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 23, 10:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Plymouth | 5 hr |
| Jun 24, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux | 8 hr |
| Jun 24, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lyon, Sioux | 5 hr |
| Jun 24, 10:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet and 11 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County5
- Plymouth County4
- Lyon County4
- O'Brien County4
- Osceola County4
- Sioux County4
- Crawford County3
- Harrison County3
- Ida County3
- Monona County3
- Buena Vista County3
- Clay County3
- Dickinson County3
- Shelby County2
- Woodbury County2
- Mills County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Emmet County2
- Hancock County2
- Kossuth County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Audubon County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Fremont County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Humboldt County1
- Montgomery County1
- Sac County1
- Webster County1
- Wright County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell 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.