Alert archive / Iowa / 2005

Weather alerts in Iowa, December 2005

44 weather alerts in December 2005, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.

Weather alerts by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in December 2005. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 44
Warnings: 4
Watches: 3
Advisories: 31
Busiest day: December 13, 200514 alerts

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
Dec 1, 3:28 PM CST	Snow Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	35 hr
Dec 2, 3:57 AM CST	Snow Advisory	DMX	Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Emmet and 14 more	23 hr
Dec 3, 3:32 AM CST	Snow Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 9 more	15 hr
Dec 3, 3:46 AM CST	Snow Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 26 more	14 hr
Dec 3, 4:16 AM CST	Snow Advisory	OAX	Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Shelby	9 hr
Dec 3, 9:16 AM CST	Snow Advisory	ARX	Clayton, Fayette	11 hr
Dec 3, 12:25 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton and 63 more	6 hr
Dec 5, 3:00 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	OAX	Harrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby	13 hr
Dec 5, 3:31 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	24 hr
Dec 5, 6:26 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 39 more	5 hr
Dec 7, 3:50 AM CST	Snow Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie	24 hr
Dec 7, 2:38 PM CST	Snow Advisory	DVN	Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson and 8 more	32 hr
Dec 7, 3:43 PM CST	Snow Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis and 12 more	20 hr
Dec 11, 7:38 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Clay, Dickinson	7 hr
Dec 12, 9:55 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DMX	Boone, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin, Greene and 12 more	10 hr
Dec 12, 10:10 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien and 2 more	8 hr
Dec 13, 3:41 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 1 more	11 hr
Dec 13, 3:43 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	11 hr
Dec 13, 4:10 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	DMX	Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Grundy and 10 more	12 hr
Dec 13, 2:25 PM CST	Snow Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more	24 hr
Dec 13, 2:25 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	DVN	Buchanan, Delaware	13 hr
Dec 13, 2:25 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DVN	Cedar, Clinton, Iowa, Johnson, Muscatine, Scott	13 hr
Dec 13, 3:09 PM CST	Heavy Snow Warning	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	31 hr
Dec 13, 3:30 PM CST	Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	OAX	Harrison, Monona, Shelby	11 hr
Dec 13, 3:54 PM CST	Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	DMX	Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford, Dallas and 11 more	12 hr
Dec 13, 3:54 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	DMX	Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin and 10 more	12 hr
Dec 13, 4:15 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	FSD	Clay, Dickinson, Osceola	12 hr
Dec 13, 4:15 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	18 hr
Dec 13, 6:35 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin and 5 more	4 hr
Dec 13, 11:03 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Emmet and 15 more	5 hr
Dec 14, 4:04 AM CST	Snow Advisory	DMX	Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Emmet and 14 more	7 hr
Dec 14, 7:15 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DVN	Cedar, Clinton, Iowa, Johnson, Keokuk, Louisa and 3 more	5 hr
Dec 26, 2:14 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	7 hr
Dec 26, 2:58 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	25 hr
Dec 26, 7:57 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DMX	Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler and 36 more	28 hr
Dec 26, 8:18 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	16 hr
Dec 26, 10:13 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more	29 hr
Dec 27, 3:33 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ARX	Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell and 1 more	11 hr
Dec 27, 3:36 PM CST	Freezing Fog Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	11 hr
Dec 28, 6:31 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux and 1 more	14 hr
Dec 29, 3:52 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Clay, Dickinson, Osceola	20 hr
Dec 29, 4:02 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DMX	Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Winnebago and 1 more	11 hr
Dec 29, 6:08 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Buena Vista, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Clay, Dickinson and 19 more	4 hr
Dec 29, 11:45 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Buena Vista, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet and 14 more	4 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Mesoscale Discussion	6
Winter
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	3
Winter Storm Watch	3
Snow Advisory	11
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Winter Weather Advisory	6
Cold
Wind Chill Advisory	2
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	9
Freezing Fog Advisory	1

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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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.