Alert archive / Iowa / Blizzard Warnings
Blizzard Warnings in Iowa, 2015
5 blizzard warnings in 2015. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of blizzard warnings reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 5
- Busiest month
- January5 blizzard warnings
- Busiest day
- January 8, 20153 blizzard warnings
Over time
By month
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 3, 6:28 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 3, 6:32 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | DMX | Emmet, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Winnebago | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 1:39 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 8, 1:45 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | ARX | Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 13 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:05 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Emmet and 14 more | 13 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Lyon County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Woodbury County2
- Emmet County2
- Kossuth County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Winnebago County2
- Buena Vista County1
- Ida County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Franklin County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Webster County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
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.