Alert archive / Iowa / Blizzard Warnings / 2025
Blizzard Warnings in Iowa, December 2025
5 blizzard warnings in December 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 December 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 5
- Busiest day
- December 28, 20253 blizzard warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 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.
- Chickasaw County2
- Fayette County2
- Floyd County2
- Howard County2
- Mitchell County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Emmet County2
- Franklin County2
- Hancock County2
- Humboldt County2
- Kossuth County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Wright County2
- Black Hawk County1
- Calhoun County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Sac County1
- Webster County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.