Alert archive / Iowa / Blizzard Warnings
Blizzard Warnings in Iowa, 2019
6 blizzard warnings in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 6
- Busiest month
- February6 blizzard warnings
- Busiest day
- February 22, 20193 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 1:43 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux | 34 hr |
| Feb 7, 4:01 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Winnebago and 1 more | 20 hr |
| Feb 22, 1:46 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 37 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:26 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 51 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:43 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Bremer, Butler and 24 more | 53 hr |
| Feb 23, 2:56 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ARX | Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 42 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Lyon County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Sioux County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Emmet County2
- Hancock County2
- Kossuth County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Fremont County1
- Harrison County1
- Mills County1
- Monona County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Ida County1
- Plymouth County1
- Woodbury County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Audubon County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy 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.