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Weather alerts in Iowa, January 2025

45 weather alerts in January 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 January 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 45
Warnings: 12
Watches: 4
Advisories: 24
Busiest day: January 2, 20257 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
Jan 1, 2:36 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DMX	Adair, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Crawford and 13 more	24 hr
Jan 1, 8:37 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DVN	Benton, Cedar, Clinton, Iowa, Johnson, Keokuk and 5 more	23 hr
Jan 2, 12:25 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	OAX	Harrison, Monona, Shelby	7 hr
Jan 2, 1:43 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	OAX	Fremont, Page	37 hr
Jan 2, 5:50 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Boone, Cass, Clarke, Dallas, Greene and 15 more	3 hr
Jan 2, 6:27 AM CST	Snow Squall Warning	DMX	Adair, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Dallas and 3 more	63 min
Jan 2, 7:24 AM CST	Snow Squall Warning Significant damage threat	DMX	Adair, Boone, Dallas, Greene, Guthrie, Madison and 3 more	66 min
Jan 2, 8:30 AM CST	Snow Squall Warning	DMX	Boone, Dallas, Jasper, Madison, Marion, Marshall and 3 more	60 min
Jan 3, 2:09 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	DVN	Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Van Buren	24 hr
Jan 3, 2:48 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	DMX	Appanoose, Davis, Decatur, Ringgold, Taylor, Wayne	24 hr
Jan 3, 2:33 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Page	47 hr
Jan 3, 2:33 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	OAX	Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie	47 hr
Jan 4, 2:16 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	DVN	Lee, Van Buren	48 hr
Jan 4, 2:16 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DVN	Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Van Buren	48 hr
Jan 4, 2:56 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	DMX	Appanoose, Davis, Decatur, Ringgold, Taylor, Wayne	34 hr
Jan 4, 2:56 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DMX	Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Lucas, Monroe and 3 more	34 hr
Jan 5, 1:19 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DMX	Appanoose, Davis, Decatur, Ringgold, Taylor, Wayne	7 hr
Jan 5, 1:30 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Page	5 hr
Jan 10, 5:47 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Jones	58 min
Jan 10, 6:28 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Cedar	62 min
Jan 10, 7:15 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Scott	60 min
Jan 10, 8:01 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Scott	59 min
Jan 17, 11:30 AM CST	Wind Advisory	FSD	Lyon, Sioux	7 hr
Jan 17, 1:13 PM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	47 hr
Jan 17, 1:13 PM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more	4 days
Jan 17, 1:42 PM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	3 days
Jan 17, 2:37 PM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more	45 hr
Jan 17, 2:39 PM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more	45 hr
Jan 18, 1:24 PM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	71 hr
Jan 19, 2:48 AM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	DMX	Adair, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler and 26 more	32 hr
Jan 19, 2:54 AM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 8 more	32 hr
Jan 19, 4:06 AM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	31 hr
Jan 19, 1:55 PM CST	Extreme Cold Warning	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	46 hr
Jan 20, 12:58 AM CST	Extreme Cold Warning	OAX	Harrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby	34 hr
Jan 20, 2:42 AM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more	24 hr
Jan 20, 2:42 AM CST	Extreme Cold Warning	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more	33 hr
Jan 20, 2:45 AM CST	Extreme Cold Warning	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	33 hr
Jan 20, 2:46 AM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more	33 hr
Jan 20, 2:46 AM CST	Extreme Cold Warning	DMX	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 39 more	33 hr
Jan 21, 10:23 AM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 14 more	16 hr
Jan 28, 1:33 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	FSD	Cherokee, O'Brien, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury	4 hr
Jan 30, 5:42 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more	18 hr
Jan 30, 11:07 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DMX	Appanoose, Black Hawk, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Grundy and 11 more	6 hr
Jan 31, 1:14 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ARX	Clayton, Fayette	5 hr
Jan 31, 1:40 AM CST	Flood Watch	DVN	Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine and 3 more	13 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	4
Flooding
Flood Watch	1
Winter
Snow Squall Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	3
Winter Storm Watch	3
Winter Weather Advisory	8
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	5
Cold Weather Advisory	12
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	1
Fire
Red Flag Warning	1
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	3

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.