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Weather alerts in Iowa, December 2023

34 weather alerts in December 2023, 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 December 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 34
Warnings: 0
Watches: 0
Advisories: 30
Busiest day: December 17, 20235 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 3, 2:30 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Delaware, Des Moines, Henry and 11 more	7 hr
Dec 3, 7:06 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	16 hr
Dec 5, 6:12 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson	2 hr
Dec 8, 1:57 PM CST	Wind Advisory	FSD	Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux and 1 more	28 hr
Dec 8, 2:58 PM CST	Wind Advisory	OAX	Harrison, Monona	27 hr
Dec 16, 8:12 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Clayton	10 hr
Dec 17, 1:35 PM CST	Wind Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 13 more	19 hr
Dec 17, 1:47 PM CST	Wind Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	16 hr
Dec 17, 1:54 PM CST	Wind Advisory	DMX	Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin and 13 more	16 hr
Dec 17, 5:42 PM CST	Wind Advisory	FSD	Dickinson	11 hr
Dec 21, 6:11 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more	17 hr
Dec 21, 6:21 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Cherokee, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux and 1 more	18 hr
Dec 22, 3:00 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	22 hr
Dec 22, 3:20 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more	20 hr
Dec 22, 3:30 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	22 hr
Dec 22, 6:23 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more	18 hr
Dec 22, 8:50 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more	15 hr
Dec 23, 10:59 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DMX	Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Crawford and 15 more	2 hr
Dec 23, 4:15 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DVN	Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry and 9 more	20 hr
Dec 24, 2:01 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	OAX	Harrison, Mills, Monona, Pottawattamie	37 hr
Dec 24, 2:22 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux and 1 more	46 hr
Dec 25, 7:00 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, Crawford, Harrison, Ida, Lyon, Monona and 6 more	6 hr
Dec 26, 10:47 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page	8 hr
Dec 26, 10:47 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Page	11 hr
Dec 26, 2:57 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DMX	Adams, Clarke, Decatur, Ringgold, Taylor, Union	21 hr
Dec 26, 4:09 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Linn	36 min
Dec 26, 4:54 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Linn	21 min
Dec 27, 8:48 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DVN	Iowa, Johnson, Keokuk, Louisa, Muscatine, Washington	4 hr
Dec 28, 4:09 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	OAX	Monona	6 hr
Dec 28, 4:11 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury	4 hr
Dec 28, 5:59 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DVN	Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Johnson and 6 more	18 hr
Dec 30, 2:02 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DVN	Cedar, Clinton, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones, Muscatine and 1 more	8 hr
Dec 30, 5:27 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	16 hr
Dec 30, 5:56 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more	18 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
Special Weather Statement	3
Winter
Winter Weather Advisory	9
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	6
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	15

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.