Weather alerts in Iowa, 2008
2,972 weather alerts in 2008, 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 2,972
- Warnings
- 2,106
- Watches
- 213
- Advisories
- 409
- Busiest month
- June1,164 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 8, 2008166 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
2,972 alerts are too many to list on one page. Narrow it to a product above, to a month in the chart, or to a county.
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Polk County305
- Johnson County273
- Story County267
- Louisa County264
- Warren County259
- Linn County258
- Marion County257
- Dallas County256
- Boone County253
- Madison County244
- Jasper County244
- Mahaska County242
- Jones County241
- Black Hawk County240
- Tama County240
- Jackson County237
- Washington County235
- Marshall County235
- Greene County231
- Clinton County229
- Scott County229
- Webster County229
- Lucas County229
- Muscatine County228
- Hardin County227
- Delaware County226
- Cedar County225
- Iowa County225
- Guthrie County224
- Adair County223
- Carroll County222
- Clarke County222
- Benton County221
- Dubuque County220
- Grundy County220
- Hamilton County219
- Poweshiek County216
- Union County212
- Keokuk County210
- Appanoose County208
59 more counties
- Mills County207
- Adams County204
- Fremont County204
- Butler County203
- Cass County203
- Wayne County203
- Montgomery County203
- Buchanan County201
- Des Moines County201
- Pottawattamie County201
- Calhoun County200
- Franklin County199
- Monroe County199
- Wright County198
- Audubon County197
- Henry County196
- Crawford County194
- Decatur County194
- Lee County193
- Wapello County193
- Taylor County192
- Bremer County191
- Jefferson County188
- Sac County188
- Humboldt County185
- Page County185
- Harrison County184
- Ringgold County182
- Cerro Gordo County179
- Pocahontas County178
- Van Buren County176
- Monona County175
- Davis County172
- Shelby County170
- Kossuth County168
- Hancock County163
- Clayton County163
- Plymouth County163
- Floyd County162
- Woodbury County161
- Worth County159
- Fayette County155
- Cherokee County154
- Lyon County153
- Palo Alto County152
- Buena Vista County152
- Chickasaw County148
- Ida County148
- Winnebago County147
- Mitchell County146
- Clay County146
- O'Brien County145
- Sioux County145
- Howard County144
- Winneshiek County143
- Dickinson County142
- Emmet County140
- Osceola County140
- Allamakee County137
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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. Rebuilt daily.