Alert archive / Iowa / Blizzard Warnings
Blizzard Warnings in Iowa, 2025
13 blizzard warnings in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 13
- Busiest month
- March8 blizzard warnings
- Busiest day
- March 18, 20254 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 2:45 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 36 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:20 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ARX | Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell | 33 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:49 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 4 more | 31 hr |
| Mar 4, 11:51 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 37 more | 27 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:13 AM CDT | Blizzard Warning | OAX | Harrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 41 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:21 AM CDT | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 40 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:10 AM CDT | Blizzard Warning | DMX | Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Crawford, Emmet and 13 more | 41 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:16 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | ARX | Floyd, Howard, Mitchell | 32 hr |
| Dec 18, 3:59 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | ARX | Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 5 hr |
| Dec 18, 3:59 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | DMX | Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin, Hancock and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 27, 9:44 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Emmet and 14 more | 35 hr |
| Dec 27, 9:48 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | ARX | Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 33 hr |
| Dec 28, 10:56 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Clay, Dickinson, O'Brien, Osceola | 19 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Floyd County4
- Howard County4
- Mitchell County4
- Cerro Gordo County4
- Emmet County4
- Franklin County4
- Hancock County4
- Humboldt County4
- Kossuth County4
- Palo Alto County4
- Pocahontas County4
- Winnebago County4
- Worth County4
- Wright County4
- Chickasaw County3
- Clay County3
- Dickinson County3
- O'Brien County3
- Osceola County3
- Bremer County3
- Butler County3
- Calhoun County3
- Hamilton County3
- Sac County3
- Webster County3
- Harrison County2
- Monona County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Cherokee County2
- Ida County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Woodbury County2
- Audubon County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Carroll County2
- Crawford County2
- Greene County2
28 more counties
- Grundy County2
- Hardin County2
- Fayette County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Fremont County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Boone County1
- Cass County1
- Clarke County1
- Dallas County1
- Decatur County1
- Guthrie County1
- Jasper County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Polk County1
- Ringgold County1
- Story County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Warren County1
- Lyon County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.