Alert archive / Iowa / 2012

Weather alerts in Iowa, January 2012

41 weather alerts in January 2012, 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 January 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 41
Warnings: 3
Watches: 2
Advisories: 35
Busiest day: January 22, 20129 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 31, 8:26 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Clay, Dickinson	4 hr
Jan 1, 3:55 AM CST	Wind Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more	14 hr
Jan 1, 3:02 PM CST	Wind Advisory	ARX	Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell	143 days
Jan 1, 3:07 PM CST	Wind Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Delaware, Dubuque, Henry and 10 more	315 days
Jan 1, 3:35 PM CST	Wind Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more	8 hr
Jan 1, 5:49 PM CST	Wind Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 1 more	2 hr
Jan 10, 2:38 PM CST	Wind Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	27 hr
Jan 10, 3:25 PM CST	Wind Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more	30 hr
Jan 11, 3:39 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	41 hr
Jan 11, 4:02 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more	41 hr
Jan 11, 4:10 AM CST	Wind Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more	35 hr
Jan 11, 11:29 AM CST	Wind Advisory	DMX	Appanoose, Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Clarke and 19 more	28 hr
Jan 11, 11:45 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DMX	Appanoose, Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Clarke and 19 more	30 hr
Jan 12, 11:30 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	DVN	Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 2 more	9 hr
Jan 16, 10:24 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Decatur, Ringgold, Wayne	5 hr
Jan 17, 3:50 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ARX	Clayton	11 hr
Jan 18, 3:41 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	32 hr
Jan 18, 3:46 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	DMX	Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Emmet and 14 more	32 hr
Jan 18, 3:15 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien and 3 more	47 hr
Jan 18, 3:46 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	DVN	Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque	20 hr
Jan 19, 3:41 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	DMX	Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin and 13 more	36 hr
Jan 19, 3:43 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	11 hr
Jan 19, 4:01 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson and 2 more	12 hr
Jan 19, 2:56 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	27 hr
Jan 19, 3:35 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more	29 hr
Jan 20, 3:27 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DMX	Boone, Calhoun, Greene, Jasper, Marshall, Polk and 3 more	13 hr
Jan 20, 4:12 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 4 more	17 hr
Jan 22, 3:18 AM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	12 hr
Jan 22, 3:30 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	27 hr
Jan 22, 3:40 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DMX	Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 26 more	32 hr
Jan 22, 3:49 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	OAX	Monona	24 hr
Jan 22, 8:08 AM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more	8 hr
Jan 22, 3:17 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	24 hr
Jan 22, 3:20 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more	15 hr
Jan 22, 3:40 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur and 11 more	8 hr
Jan 22, 3:55 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Iowa, Johnson and 2 more	20 hr
Jan 24, 2:47 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	11 hr
Jan 25, 8:27 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury	4 hr
Jan 26, 5:01 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more	7 hr
Jan 26, 5:49 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DMX	Appanoose, Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Clarke, Davis and 15 more	5 hr
Jan 26, 5:53 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 1 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	1
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	3
Winter Storm Watch	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	2
Winter Weather Advisory	15
Cold
Wind Chill Advisory	3
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	9
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	6

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.