Alert archive / Iowa / 2026
Weather alerts in Iowa, February 2026
41 weather alerts in February 2026, 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 41
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 7
- Advisories
- 15
- Busiest day
- February 18, 20269 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 14, 11:18 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 10 hr |
| Feb 15, 1:40 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Clarke, Crawford and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 15, 7:30 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | DVN | Des Moines, Lee | 3 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:43 AM CST | Wind Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 36 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:31 PM CST | Wind Advisory | DMX | Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 21 more | 27 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:31 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:38 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:41 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:05 PM CST | Wind Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 27 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:30 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 17, 5:22 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 33 more | 53 min |
| Feb 17, 7:43 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Harrison, Monona, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 22 hr |
| Feb 17, 8:04 PM CST | Wind Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more | 22 hr |
| Feb 17, 8:15 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 23 hr |
| Feb 17, 8:25 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 23 hr |
| Feb 17, 10:06 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 20 hr |
| Feb 18, 12:30 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 18 hr |
| Feb 18, 11:44 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Shelby | 40 hr |
| Feb 18, 12:59 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 4 more | 35 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:43 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 34 more | 42 hr |
| Feb 18, 9:06 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | OAX | Harrison, Mills, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 31 hr |
| Feb 19, 2:41 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 32 hr |
| Feb 19, 2:49 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Delaware, Dubuque, Iowa and 4 more | 30 hr |
| Feb 19, 10:45 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DMX | Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Carroll and 14 more | 22 hr |
| Feb 19, 11:30 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 1 more | 25 hr |
| Feb 19, 12:18 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 6 hr |
| Feb 19, 1:38 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque | 19 hr |
| Feb 19, 6:07 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 19, 7:11 PM CST | Wind Advisory | DVN | Clinton, Jackson, Scott | 15 hr |
| Feb 19, 11:00 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Bremer, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Winneshiek | 5 hr |
| Feb 25, 7:12 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Boone, Marshall, Story | 63 min |
| Feb 25, 8:07 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Jasper, Marshall, Poweshiek, Story, Tama | 113 min |
| Feb 26, 2:41 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Clay, Dickinson, O'Brien, Osceola | 7 hr |
| Feb 26, 1:24 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | Plymouth, Woodbury | 8 hr |
| Feb 26, 1:34 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | DMX | Appanoose, Davis, Monroe, Wapello, Wayne | 8 hr |
| Feb 26, 1:46 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Feb 26, 9:12 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Monona | 21 hr |
| Feb 26, 9:28 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 21 hr |
| Feb 26, 9:40 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Emmet, Humboldt and 12 more | 20 hr |
| Feb 27, 1:35 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine and 2 more | 16 hr |
| Feb 27, 2:25 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Howard, Winneshiek | 38 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 | 4 |
| Special Weather Statement | 2 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 4 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 6 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 5 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 9 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 7 |
| 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.
- Story County9
- Crawford County8
- Boone County8
- Marshall County8
- Shelby County7
- Audubon County7
- Cass County7
- Buena Vista County7
- Clay County7
- O'Brien County7
- Plymouth County7
- Woodbury County7
- Bremer County7
- Carroll County7
- Greene County7
- Hamilton County7
- Tama County7
- Webster County7
- Allamakee County7
- Winneshiek County7
- Pottawattamie County6
- Union County6
- Cherokee County6
- Dickinson County6
- Ida County6
- Osceola County6
- Sioux County6
- Black Hawk County6
- Butler County6
- Calhoun County6
- Franklin County6
- Grundy County6
- Hardin County6
- Humboldt County6
- Palo Alto County6
- Pocahontas County6
- Sac County6
- Scott County6
- Dallas County6
- Guthrie County6
59 more counties
- Polk County6
- Chickasaw County6
- Clayton County6
- Fayette County6
- Howard County6
- Adair County5
- Adams County5
- Ringgold County5
- Taylor County5
- Des Moines County5
- Lee County5
- Emmet County5
- Kossuth County5
- Winnebago County5
- Wright County5
- Benton County5
- Buchanan County5
- Delaware County5
- Dubuque County5
- Jackson County5
- Muscatine County5
- Floyd County5
- Harrison County5
- Monona County5
- Mills County4
- Montgomery County4
- Clarke County4
- Decatur County4
- Lyon County4
- Cerro Gordo County4
- Hancock County4
- Worth County4
- Cedar County4
- Clinton County4
- Henry County4
- Iowa County4
- Jefferson County4
- Johnson County4
- Jones County4
- Linn County4
- Louisa County4
- Van Buren County4
- Appanoose County4
- Davis County4
- Jasper County4
- Madison County4
- Monroe County4
- Poweshiek County4
- Wapello County4
- Wayne County4
- Mitchell County4
- Fremont County3
- Lucas County3
- Marion County3
- Warren County3
- Page County2
- Keokuk County2
- Washington County2
- Mahaska County2
Nearby
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.