Alert archive / Iowa / Blizzard Warnings
Blizzard Warnings in Iowa, 2022
4 blizzard warnings in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 4
- Busiest month
- December4 blizzard warnings
- Busiest day
- December 21, 20224 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 21, 11:13 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 67 hr |
| Dec 21, 11:25 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | DMX | Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun and 27 more | 67 hr |
| Dec 21, 11:41 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 5 more | 66 hr |
| Dec 21, 1:57 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 64 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Allamakee County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Audubon County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Jasper County1
- Kossuth County1
- Marshall County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Sac County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
23 more counties
- Wright County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Linn County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury 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.