Alert archive / Iowa / 2008
Weather alerts in Iowa, November 2008
33 weather alerts in November 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 November 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 33
- Warnings
- 7
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 20
- Busiest day
- November 6, 20088 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 10:01 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson and 8 more | 12 hr |
| Oct 31, 10:15 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DMX | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas, Mahaska and 6 more | 12 hr |
| Nov 1, 10:13 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DVN | Jefferson, Keokuk, Van Buren, Washington | 106 min |
| Nov 1, 9:15 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 22 more | 14 hr |
| Nov 2, 6:21 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 3 hr |
| Nov 3, 9:57 AM CST | Wind Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Clay, Dickinson, O'Brien, Osceola | 8 hr |
| Nov 5, 2:51 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Harrison and 9 more | 114 min |
| Nov 5, 2:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Pottawattamie | 65 min |
| Nov 5, 4:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 36 min |
| Nov 5, 5:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 5, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 31 min |
| Nov 5, 5:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Plymouth, Woodbury | 28 min |
| Nov 5, 6:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, O'Brien, Plymouth, Sioux | 21 min |
| Nov 5, 6:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OAX | Fremont | 30 min |
| Nov 5, 7:08 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford and 9 more | 97 min |
| Nov 5, 7:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dickinson, O'Brien, Osceola | 33 min |
| Nov 6, 3:30 AM CST | Wind Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Ida, Plymouth, Woodbury | 39 hr |
| Nov 6, 3:45 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux | 38 hr |
| Nov 6, 4:05 AM CST | Wind Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 36 hr |
| Nov 6, 10:37 AM CST | River Flood Warning | DMX | Lucas | 30 hr |
| Nov 10, 11:06 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 27 hr |
| Nov 10, 3:55 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DMX | Adair, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler and 33 more | 23 hr |
| Nov 10, 7:01 PM CST | Freezing Rain Advisory | OAX | Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 8 hr |
| Nov 10, 7:19 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 11, 4:25 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ARX | Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 8 hr |
| Nov 11, 6:51 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Winneshiek | 4 hr |
| Nov 11, 9:24 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Ida, Plymouth, Woodbury | 3 hr |
| Nov 12, 1:54 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 12, 2:50 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 12, 7:29 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ARX | Allamakee | 4 hr |
| Nov 29, 1:50 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 37 hr |
| Nov 29, 3:15 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DMX | Appanoose, Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Clarke, Davis and 17 more | 27 hr |
| Nov 30, 3:40 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 1 more | 20 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 | 4 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| River Flood Warning | 1 |
| Winter | |
| Freezing Rain Advisory | 1 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 8 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 3 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 8 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- O'Brien County8
- Cherokee County8
- Plymouth County8
- Buena Vista County7
- Dickinson County7
- Osceola County7
- Woodbury County7
- Fremont County6
- Mills County6
- Clay County6
- Ida County6
- Sioux County6
- Lucas County5
- Mahaska County5
- Marion County5
- Poweshiek County5
- Adair County5
- Audubon County5
- Carroll County5
- Cass County5
- Greene County5
- Guthrie County5
- Montgomery County5
- Crawford County5
- Harrison County5
- Lyon County5
- Monona County5
- Pottawattamie County5
- Appanoose County4
- Clarke County4
- Davis County4
- Decatur County4
- Monroe County4
- Wapello County4
- Wayne County4
- Adams County4
- Jasper County4
- Polk County4
- Story County4
- Taylor County4
59 more counties
- Warren County4
- Page County4
- Shelby County4
- Jefferson County3
- Keokuk County3
- Van Buren County3
- Washington County3
- Ringgold County3
- Boone County3
- Dallas County3
- Madison County3
- Sac County3
- Black Hawk County3
- Bremer County3
- Butler County3
- Franklin County3
- Grundy County3
- Hardin County3
- Marshall County3
- Tama County3
- Winneshiek County3
- Allamakee County3
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Iowa County2
- Johnson County2
- Lee County2
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Union County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Emmet County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hancock County2
- Humboldt County2
- Kossuth County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Webster County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Wright County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Fayette County2
- Floyd County2
- Howard County2
- Mitchell County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
- Jackson County1
- Jones County1
- Linn County1
- Clayton County1
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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.