Alert archive / Iowa / Blizzard Watches
Blizzard Watches in Iowa, 2014
4 blizzard watches in 2014. 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Watches
- 4
- Busiest month
- January2 blizzard watches
- Busiest day
- January 24, 20142 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 24, 3:13 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | FSD | Clay, Dickinson, Osceola | 23 hr |
| Jan 24, 3:30 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | DMX | Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet and 22 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:06 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | DMX | Adair, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler and 27 more | 36 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:13 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | ARX | Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 25 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Black Hawk County2
- Boone County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Franklin County2
- Grundy County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hancock County2
- Hardin County2
- Humboldt County2
- Jasper County2
- Kossuth County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Polk County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Story County2
- Tama County2
- Webster County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Wright County2
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Osceola County1
- Emmet County1
- Mahaska County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Wapello County1
- Adair County1
- Audubon County1
- Carroll County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Madison County1
- Sac 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.