Weather alerts in Black Hawk County, Iowa

3,211 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Black Hawk County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 3,211
Warnings: 898
Watches: 669
Advisories: 802
Busiest year: 2008240 alerts
Average year: 78over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

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	356
Tornado Warning	59
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	277
Tornado Watch	111
Mesoscale Discussion	756
Special Weather Statement	86
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	35
Flash Flood Warning	53
River Flood Warning	198
Flash Flood Watch	78
Flood Watch	26
River Flood Watch	66
Areal Flood Advisory	23
Winter
Blizzard Warning	20
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	4
Snow Squall Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	63
Blizzard Watch	9
Winter Storm Watch	61
Blowing Snow Advisory	9
Freezing Rain Advisory	8
Snow Advisory	14
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	203
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	8
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	6
Extreme Heat Watch	3
Heat Advisory	45
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	3
Freeze Warning	37
Wind Chill Warning	21
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	9
Wind Chill Watch	5
Cold Weather Advisory	11
Frost Advisory	31
Wind Chill Advisory	112
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	18
High Wind Watch	10
Wind Advisory	152
Fire
Red Flag Warning	19
Fire Weather Watch	6
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	2
Dense Fog Advisory	186
Freezing Fog Advisory	1

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 7, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	59 min
Aug 7, 3:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	DMX	22 min
Aug 7, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DMX	26 min
Jul 26, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	46 min
Jul 25, 2:53 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DMX	67 hr
Jul 20, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	37 min
Jul 20, 3:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	48 min
Jul 20, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DMX	64 min
Jul 20, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DMX	66 min
Jul 12, 12:45 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DMX	19 hr
Jul 10, 4:15 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DMX	3 days
Jul 9, 9:55 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DMX	27 hr

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.