Alert archive / Iowa / Blizzard Warnings
Blizzard Warnings in Iowa, 2026
9 blizzard warnings in 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 9
- Busiest month
- March5 blizzard warnings
- Busiest day
- January 21, 20264 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 21, 10:13 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Clay, Dickinson, Osceola | 8 hr |
| Jan 21, 10:26 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin and 9 more | 9 hr |
| Jan 21, 10:30 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ARX | Chickasaw, Floyd, Mitchell | 9 hr |
| Jan 21, 11:24 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Jones, Linn | 10 hr |
| Mar 13, 9:20 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 56 hr |
| Mar 14, 11:34 AM CDT | Blizzard Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 43 hr |
| Mar 14, 12:33 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 48 hr |
| Mar 14, 12:46 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 46 hr |
| Mar 14, 11:35 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | OAX | Monona, Shelby | 22 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Osceola County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Emmet County2
- Franklin County2
- Grundy County2
- Hancock County2
- Humboldt County2
- Kossuth County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Wright County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Floyd County2
- Mitchell County2
- Benton County2
- Buchanan County2
- Delaware County2
- Jones County2
- Linn County2
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Audubon County1
- Boone County1
- Calhoun County1
53 more counties
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Clarke County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Jasper County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold County1
- Sac County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Webster County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Des Moines County1
- Dubuque County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington County1
- Allamakee County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Howard County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Monona County1
- Shelby County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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.