Alert archive / Iowa / Blizzard Watches
Blizzard Watches in Iowa, 2009
11 blizzard watches in 2009. 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Watches
- 11
- Busiest month
- January4 blizzard watches
- Busiest day
- January 11, 20093 blizzard watches
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 11, 3:24 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | ARX | Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell | 24 hr |
| Jan 11, 3:57 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | DMX | Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler and 38 more | 24 hr |
| Jan 11, 4:33 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 3 more | 24 hr |
| Jan 12, 3:24 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 12 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:49 PM CDT | Blizzard Watch | OAX | Monona | 13 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:54 PM CDT | Blizzard Watch | DMX | Calhoun, Crawford, Emmet, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:05 PM CDT | Blizzard Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 6, 3:11 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | ARX | Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 25 hr |
| Dec 7, 3:46 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 34 hr |
| Dec 7, 3:42 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 19 hr |
| Dec 7, 3:45 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 21 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Calhoun County3
- Crawford County3
- Emmet County3
- Humboldt County3
- Kossuth County3
- Palo Alto County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Sac County3
- Chickasaw County2
- Floyd County2
- Howard County2
- Mitchell County2
- Appanoose County2
- Audubon County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Boone County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Carroll County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Clarke County2
- Dallas County2
- Davis County2
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
- Grundy County2
- Guthrie County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hancock County2
- Hardin County2
- Jasper County2
- Lucas County2
- Madison County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Monroe County2
- Polk County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Story County2
55 more counties
- Tama County2
- Wapello County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Webster County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Wright County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Ida County2
- Lyon County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Sioux County2
- Benton County2
- Buchanan County2
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Henry County2
- Iowa County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Jones County2
- Keokuk County2
- Linn County2
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Washington County2
- Monona County2
- Fayette County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Des Moines County1
- Lee County1
- Van Buren County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Cass County1
- Decatur County1
- Ringgold County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Fremont County1
- Harrison County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.