Weather alerts in Iowa, 2025
1,979 weather alerts in 2025, 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 1,979
- Warnings
- 903
- Watches
- 211
- Advisories
- 334
- Busiest month
- July537 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 30, 202585 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
1,979 alerts are too many to list on one page. Narrow it to a product above, to a month in the chart, or to a county.
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pottawattamie County192
- Sioux County188
- Mills County178
- Plymouth County178
- Scott County171
- Harrison County167
- Polk County165
- O'Brien County165
- Osceola County163
- Lyon County161
- Marshall County159
- Story County159
- Benton County159
- Linn County159
- Muscatine County158
- Dallas County157
- Black Hawk County157
- Fremont County156
- Woodbury County155
- Cherokee County154
- Montgomery County153
- Hardin County153
- Monona County152
- Hamilton County152
- Boone County150
- Warren County149
- Calhoun County149
- Wright County148
- Webster County147
- Buchanan County147
- Guthrie County146
- Cedar County146
- Clinton County146
- Johnson County146
- Greene County145
- Iowa County144
- Grundy County144
- Clay County142
- Jasper County141
- Jones County141
59 more counties
- Shelby County140
- Cerro Gordo County140
- Cass County139
- Tama County139
- Dickinson County139
- Franklin County139
- Humboldt County139
- Madison County138
- Lee County138
- Poweshiek County137
- Louisa County137
- Page County136
- Kossuth County136
- Dubuque County136
- Carroll County135
- Washington County135
- Des Moines County135
- Pocahontas County134
- Adair County133
- Worth County133
- Sac County131
- Audubon County130
- Keokuk County130
- Butler County130
- Hancock County130
- Palo Alto County130
- Henry County129
- Delaware County129
- Winnebago County128
- Clarke County127
- Ida County127
- Floyd County126
- Jackson County126
- Marion County125
- Adams County125
- Crawford County123
- Jefferson County123
- Buena Vista County123
- Emmet County123
- Union County122
- Taylor County122
- Van Buren County121
- Ringgold County118
- Decatur County117
- Bremer County116
- Lucas County115
- Wayne County115
- Mahaska County112
- Chickasaw County112
- Fayette County110
- Monroe County108
- Appanoose County107
- Howard County107
- Wapello County105
- Mitchell County105
- Winneshiek County105
- Davis County104
- Clayton County98
- Allamakee County89
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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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.