Alert archive / Iowa / 2006

Weather alerts in Iowa, December 2006

35 weather alerts in December 2006, 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 2006. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 35
Warnings: 7
Watches: 2
Advisories: 22
Busiest day: December 12, 200610 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
Nov 30, 11:50 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Des Moines, Henry, Lee	4 hr
Dec 6, 9:20 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	FSD	Clay, Dickinson, O'Brien, Osceola	11 hr
Dec 7, 3:01 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	DMX	Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto and 4 more	6 hr
Dec 11, 6:02 PM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	FSD	Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux	9 hr
Dec 11, 7:21 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Clarke, Dallas and 14 more	2 hr
Dec 11, 8:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Page	39 min
Dec 11, 8:37 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 8 more	21 hr
Dec 11, 8:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adams, Taylor	49 min
Dec 11, 8:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Page	22 min
Dec 11, 9:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Dallas, Madison	37 min
Dec 11, 10:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Story	34 min
Dec 12, 4:49 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DMX	Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin and 16 more	4 hr
Dec 12, 9:17 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DMX	Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin and 16 more	3 hr
Dec 14, 3:30 AM CST	Wind Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	14 hr
Dec 14, 3:45 AM CST	Wind Advisory	DMX	Boone, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Crawford and 16 more	12 hr
Dec 18, 3:58 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	36 hr
Dec 19, 4:54 PM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	FSD	Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux	18 hr
Dec 20, 3:41 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	55 hr
Dec 20, 3:58 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	OAX	Monona	26 hr
Dec 20, 3:13 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DMX	Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth and 5 more	6 hr
Dec 21, 4:12 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more	7 hr
Dec 21, 7:16 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 24 more	7 hr
Dec 21, 2:17 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more	22 hr
Dec 21, 6:13 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more	16 hr
Dec 21, 8:04 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	16 hr
Dec 21, 9:18 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 3 more	9 hr
Dec 29, 4:18 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	48 hr
Dec 30, 3:24 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more	24 hr
Dec 30, 9:02 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	7 hr
Dec 31, 12:53 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lyon, Sioux	5 hr
Dec 31, 3:47 AM CST	Snow Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 12 more	18 hr
Dec 31, 6:29 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Harrison and 8 more	6 hr
Dec 31, 9:54 AM CST	Heavy Snow Warning	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien	8 hr
Dec 31, 11:33 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	DMX	Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford, Emmet, Palo Alto, Pocahontas and 1 more	8 hr
Dec 31, 3:23 PM CST	Snow Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, Shelby	2 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	5
Mesoscale Discussion	4
Winter
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Watch	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	2
Snow Advisory	2
Winter Weather Advisory	5
Cold
Wind Chill Advisory	2
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	2
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	9

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.