Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Iowa, May 2003
6 tornado watches in May 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 May 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 10, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 12:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lee | 5 hr |
| May 10, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Des Moines and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Winneshiek | 5 hr |
| May 10, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 2 more | 3 hr |
| May 30, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clinton, Jackson, Scott | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clinton County3
- Jackson County3
- Scott County3
- Lee County2
- Cedar County2
- Des Moines County2
- Jones County2
- Muscatine County2
- Adams County1
- Cass County1
- Fremont County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Taylor County1
- Appanoose County1
- Benton County1
- Davis County1
- Grundy County1
- Hardin County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Keokuk County1
- Linn County1
- Louisa County1
- Lucas County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Van Buren County1
- Wapello 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.