Alert archive / Iowa / 2025
Weather alerts in Iowa, February 2025
102 weather alerts in February 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 February 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 102
- Warnings
- 19
- Watches
- 9
- Advisories
- 65
- Busiest day
- February 16, 202511 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 2:44 AM CST | Wind Advisory | FSD | Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Feb 2, 2:07 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 2, 3:55 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun and 35 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 2, 3:56 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 3, 10:22 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Dickinson, Osceola | 6 hr |
| Feb 4, 1:44 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 31 hr |
| Feb 4, 1:55 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 41 more | 34 hr |
| Feb 4, 1:59 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 37 hr |
| Feb 5, 8:22 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 6, 3:16 AM CST | Wind Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 15 hr |
| Feb 6, 3:19 AM CST | Wind Advisory | DMX | Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Winnebago and 1 more | 15 hr |
| Feb 6, 3:23 AM CST | Wind Advisory | FSD | Clay, Dickinson, O'Brien, Osceola | 15 hr |
| Feb 7, 2:52 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Lyon, Osceola | 35 hr |
| Feb 7, 1:14 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 17 hr |
| Feb 7, 8:26 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DMX | Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis, Decatur and 7 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 9, 5:10 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | OAX | Fremont, Montgomery, Page | 34 hr |
| Feb 10, 2:13 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 22 hr |
| Feb 10, 2:14 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DVN | Benton, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque and 14 more | 35 hr |
| Feb 10, 2:29 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | OAX | Monona | 23 hr |
| Feb 10, 2:57 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DMX | Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Jasper and 15 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 10, 2:57 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DMX | Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin, Hancock, Humboldt and 6 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 10, 2:18 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 52 hr |
| Feb 10, 2:26 PM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien and 3 more | 19 hr |
| Feb 10, 2:50 PM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | DMX | Emmet, Kossuth, Palo Alto | 17 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:49 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | OAX | Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 39 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:50 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 26 more | 42 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:50 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 23 more | 42 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:56 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 47 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:56 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DVN | Buchanan | 10 hr |
| Feb 11, 1:14 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | ARX | Clayton | 35 hr |
| Feb 11, 1:14 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell and 1 more | 35 hr |
| Feb 11, 1:49 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Ida, Plymouth, Woodbury | 28 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:20 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | ARX | Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell | 31 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:31 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 31 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:32 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 38 more | 30 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:49 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 30 hr |
| Feb 12, 12:23 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Van Buren | 14 hr |
| Feb 13, 1:51 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 50 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:02 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 10 more | 35 hr |
| Feb 14, 12:11 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 26 hr |
| Feb 14, 1:14 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 2 more | 22 hr |
| Feb 14, 1:14 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 29 hr |
| Feb 15, 1:34 PM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | OAX | Harrison, Monona, Shelby | 19 hr |
| Feb 15, 2:00 PM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | FSD | Woodbury | 19 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:36 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more | 32 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:36 AM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:02 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien and 3 more | 42 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:02 AM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:11 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 42 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:11 AM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:18 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin and 13 more | 42 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:18 AM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:21 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DMX | Adams, Cass, Decatur, Ringgold, Taylor, Union and 1 more | 39 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:36 AM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 59 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:37 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 62 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:38 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa and 4 more | 33 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:38 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 5 more | 33 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:51 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 57 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:51 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | OAX | Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 33 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:57 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 33 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:25 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 31 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:44 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis and 12 more | 32 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:44 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 32 more | 32 hr |
| Feb 17, 11:50 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | FSD | Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola | 9 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:26 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 34 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:33 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 33 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:51 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 33 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:09 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 31 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:24 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 33 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:21 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 43 hr |
| Feb 19, 2:22 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 32 hr |
| Feb 19, 2:40 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 30 hr |
| Feb 19, 2:43 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | ARX | Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell and 1 more | 30 hr |
| Feb 19, 3:37 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | DMX | Appanoose, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun and 37 more | 29 hr |
| Feb 19, 3:37 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford and 4 more | 29 hr |
| Feb 19, 12:59 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FSD | Ida, Woodbury | 20 hr |
| Feb 20, 2:39 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | DMX | Adair, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 6 more | 30 hr |
| Feb 20, 2:43 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | FSD | Ida, Woodbury | 30 hr |
| Feb 20, 3:21 AM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | OAX | Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 30 hr |
| Feb 24, 8:28 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Grundy, Hardin | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 8:42 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Benton | 78 min |
| Feb 24, 9:17 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Linn | 43 min |
| Feb 25, 4:14 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | FSD | Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola | 7 hr |
| Feb 25, 9:06 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Mills | 24 min |
| Feb 25, 9:26 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Fremont | 34 min |
| Feb 25, 9:31 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Mills, Montgomery | 44 min |
| Feb 25, 9:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Montgomery, Page | 33 min |
| Feb 25, 9:49 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Adams, Taylor | 41 min |
| Feb 25, 10:58 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Poweshiek | 32 min |
| Feb 25, 11:10 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Washington | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 1:17 PM CST | Wind Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 29 hr |
| Feb 27, 1:18 PM CST | Wind Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 10 more | 29 hr |
| Feb 27, 1:19 PM CST | Wind Advisory | OAX | Monona | 29 hr |
| Feb 27, 1:35 PM CST | Wind Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 28 hr |
| Feb 27, 1:36 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 29 hr |
| Feb 27, 1:38 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Ida, Plymouth, Woodbury | 14 hr |
| Feb 27, 1:50 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 28 hr |
| Feb 27, 2:09 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 28 hr |
| Feb 27, 2:09 PM CST | Wind Advisory | DMX | Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun and 30 more | 28 hr |
| Feb 28, 3:20 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 15 hr |
| Feb 28, 2:05 PM CST | High Wind Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 28, 2:12 PM CST | High Wind Warning | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin and 11 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 | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 1 |
| Special Weather Statement | 9 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 4 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 3 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 24 |
| Cold | |
| Extreme Cold Warning | 8 |
| Extreme Cold Watch | 5 |
| Cold Weather Advisory | 28 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 2 |
| Wind Advisory | 9 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 4 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Montgomery County18
- Dickinson County17
- Osceola County17
- Mills County17
- Clay County16
- O'Brien County16
- Adams County16
- Cherokee County15
- Lyon County15
- Plymouth County15
- Woodbury County15
- Cass County15
- Hamilton County15
- Hardin County15
- Kossuth County15
- Union County15
- Pottawattamie County15
- Buena Vista County14
- Ida County14
- Emmet County14
- Humboldt County14
- Marshall County14
- Palo Alto County14
- Ringgold County14
- Taylor County14
- Webster County14
- Wright County14
- Fremont County14
- Harrison County14
- Page County14
- Cerro Gordo County14
- Grundy County14
- Hancock County14
- Tama County14
- Adair County13
- Audubon County13
- Boone County13
- Calhoun County13
- Decatur County13
- Guthrie County13
59 more counties
- Poweshiek County13
- Story County13
- Monona County13
- Shelby County13
- Black Hawk County13
- Franklin County13
- Benton County13
- Linn County13
- Sioux County12
- Carroll County12
- Clarke County12
- Crawford County12
- Dallas County12
- Greene County12
- Jasper County12
- Madison County12
- Marion County12
- Pocahontas County12
- Polk County12
- Sac County12
- Warren County12
- Wayne County12
- Bremer County12
- Butler County12
- Worth County12
- Buchanan County12
- Cedar County12
- Clinton County12
- Delaware County12
- Dubuque County12
- Jackson County12
- Jones County12
- Appanoose County11
- Davis County11
- Lucas County11
- Mahaska County11
- Monroe County11
- Wapello County11
- Winnebago County11
- Iowa County11
- Johnson County11
- Muscatine County11
- Scott County11
- Washington County11
- Chickasaw County11
- Floyd County11
- Howard County11
- Mitchell County11
- Keokuk County10
- Winneshiek County10
- Des Moines County9
- Henry County9
- Jefferson County9
- Lee County9
- Louisa County9
- Van Buren County9
- Allamakee County9
- Clayton County9
- Fayette County9
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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.