Weather alerts in Iowa, January 2011

Weather alerts by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in January 2011. Tap one for its archive.

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 31, 8:18 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	OAX	Monona	7 hr
Jan 1, 3:28 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	FSD	Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury	9 hr
Jan 7, 4:47 AM CST	Wind Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more	11 hr
Jan 7, 10:00 AM CST	Wind Advisory	FSD	Plymouth, Woodbury	6 hr
Jan 7, 1:18 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola	7 hr
Jan 7, 3:22 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DMX	Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin and 14 more	6 hr
Jan 7, 4:19 PM CST	Blizzard Warning	DMX	Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth and 4 more	5 hr
Jan 7, 4:41 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ARX	Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell	4 hr
Jan 8, 2:24 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	64 hr
Jan 8, 2:26 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more	69 hr
Jan 8, 3:13 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	DMX	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 19 more	24 hr
Jan 9, 3:20 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more	51 hr
Jan 10, 4:17 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa and 10 more	38 hr
Jan 10, 2:48 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ARX	Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell	27 hr
Jan 11, 3:14 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Ida, Lyon, O'Brien and 4 more	19 hr
Jan 11, 3:46 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more	18 hr
Jan 11, 5:56 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 13 more	15 hr
Jan 16, 3:26 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	27 hr
Jan 16, 3:38 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DMX	Adair, Appanoose, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler and 38 more	26 hr
Jan 16, 3:50 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more	28 hr
Jan 16, 9:45 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	6 hr
Jan 17, 2:50 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Henry, Jasper and 14 more	4 hr
Jan 17, 4:14 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Clay, Dickinson, Osceola	17 hr
Jan 17, 6:35 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appanoose, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk and 9 more	4 hr
Jan 18, 11:47 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	OAX	Harrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby	319 days
Jan 20, 3:02 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more	31 hr
Jan 20, 3:29 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	31 hr
Jan 20, 3:46 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	DMX	Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo and 20 more	30 hr
Jan 21, 3:24 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	OAX	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more	13 hr
Jan 22, 4:05 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Crawford, Decatur and 3 more	29 hr
Jan 22, 4:26 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more	29 hr
Jan 22, 6:25 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Mills, Pottawattamie	10 hr
Jan 23, 4:16 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	OAX	Monona	7 hr
Jan 24, 2:45 AM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	DVN	Scott	5 hr
Jan 28, 3:27 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Winneshiek	24 hr
Jan 28, 9:09 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury	3 hr
Jan 28, 9:29 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Clarke and 7 more	3 hr
Jan 29, 3:39 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	3 days
Jan 29, 4:07 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	DMX	Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto and 4 more	12 hr
Jan 29, 7:42 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Winneshiek	8 hr
Jan 30, 3:40 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more	37 hr
Jan 30, 4:00 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	OAX	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more	13 hr
Jan 30, 4:01 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 28 more	36 hr
Jan 30, 4:01 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more	68 hr
Jan 30, 4:19 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	47 hr
Jan 30, 3:55 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DVN	Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque	24 hr
Jan 30, 4:55 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more	58 hr
Jan 31, 3:49 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	ARX	Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette	25 hr
Jan 31, 3:17 PM CST	Wind Chill Watch	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Ida, Plymouth, Woodbury	46 min
Jan 31, 3:17 PM CST	Wind Chill Warning	FSD	Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux	45 hr
Jan 31, 4:03 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Ida, Plymouth, Woodbury	44 hr
Jan 31, 4:12 PM CST	Blizzard Warning	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more	44 hr
Jan 31, 4:20 PM CST	Blizzard Warning	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 28 more	42 hr
Jan 31, 4:20 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	DMX	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Bremer, Butler and 9 more	19 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	2
Winter
Blizzard Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	3
Winter Storm Watch	8
Freezing Rain Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	21
Cold
Wind Chill Warning	1
Wind Chill Watch	1
Wind Chill Advisory	10
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	2
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	2

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.