Alert archive / Iowa / 2016
Weather alerts in Iowa, November 2016
36 weather alerts in November 2016, 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 36
- Warnings
- 9
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 13
- Busiest day
- November 28, 201615 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 1, 6:10 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | FSD | Cherokee, O'Brien, Plymouth, Sioux | 3 hr |
| Nov 1, 9:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DVN | Cedar, Louisa, Muscatine | 4 days |
| Nov 1, 11:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Cass, Cedar and 34 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 2, 8:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Des Moines | 60 min |
| Nov 2, 8:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Scott | 38 min |
| Nov 2, 1:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Lee | 56 min |
| Nov 3, 9:51 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Louisa | 45 hr |
| Nov 4, 3:48 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 15, 3:15 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ARX | Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 7 hr |
| Nov 15, 3:22 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Grundy and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 15, 5:04 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Iowa, Jefferson and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 16, 3:33 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FSD | Lyon | 24 hr |
| Nov 17, 3:34 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Lyon, Sioux | 41 hr |
| Nov 17, 2:39 PM CST | Wind Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 3 more | 33 hr |
| Nov 17, 3:07 PM CST | Wind Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 45 hr |
| Nov 17, 3:42 PM CST | Wind Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 38 hr |
| Nov 17, 3:47 PM CST | Wind Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 26 hr |
| Nov 18, 11:12 AM CST | Wind Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 25 hr |
| Nov 26, 10:49 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ARX | Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell | 13 hr |
| Nov 27, 2:28 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | DMX | Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin, Hancock and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 28, 11:53 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Jones | 22 min |
| Nov 28, 3:13 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Grundy | 62 min |
| Nov 28, 3:16 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Mahaska | 59 min |
| Nov 28, 3:22 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell | 83 min |
| Nov 28, 3:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Butler, Grundy | 27 min |
| Nov 28, 3:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Grundy | 32 min |
| Nov 28, 3:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Poweshiek | 37 min |
| Nov 28, 3:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Marshall, Tama | 18 min |
| Nov 28, 3:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Bremer, Butler | 46 min |
| Nov 28, 4:06 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Floyd, Mitchell | 39 min |
| Nov 28, 4:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Poweshiek | 41 min |
| Nov 28, 4:28 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Chickasaw, Davis and 14 more | 92 min |
| Nov 28, 4:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Davis | 13 min |
| Nov 28, 5:11 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Wapello | 34 min |
| Nov 28, 5:21 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Iowa | 24 min |
| Nov 28, 6:23 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Linn | 37 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Tornado Warning | 7 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 2 |
| Special Weather Statement | 11 |
| Flooding | |
| River Flood Warning | 2 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Watch | 1 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 5 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 7 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mahaska County6
- Poweshiek County6
- Des Moines County5
- Iowa County5
- Jones County5
- Linn County5
- Wapello County5
- Chickasaw County5
- Floyd County5
- Howard County5
- Mitchell County5
- Bremer County5
- Butler County5
- Grundy County5
- Cedar County4
- Louisa County4
- Muscatine County4
- Benton County4
- Davis County4
- Henry County4
- Jefferson County4
- Johnson County4
- Keokuk County4
- Scott County4
- Washington County4
- Tama County4
- Clinton County3
- Jackson County3
- Jasper County3
- Marion County3
- Monroe County3
- Van Buren County3
- Delaware County3
- Dubuque County3
- Fayette County3
- Black Hawk County3
- Cerro Gordo County3
- Franklin County3
- Hancock County3
- Marshall County3
59 more counties
- Winnebago County3
- Worth County3
- Wright County3
- Buchanan County3
- Cherokee County2
- O'Brien County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Appanoose County2
- Cass County2
- Clarke County2
- Decatur County2
- Lucas County2
- Madison County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Polk County2
- Ringgold County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Lee County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Story County2
- Lyon County2
- Emmet County2
- Kossuth County2
- Buena Vista County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- Osceola County1
- Woodbury County1
- Allamakee County1
- Clayton County1
- Audubon County1
- Boone County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Humboldt County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Webster County1
- Fremont County1
- Harrison County1
- Mills County1
- Monona County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby 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. Rebuilt daily.