Alert archive / Iowa / Blizzard Watches
Blizzard Watches in Iowa, 2016
7 blizzard watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Watches
- 7
- Busiest month
- January4 blizzard watches
- Busiest day
- January 31, 20164 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 31, 3:23 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 35 hr |
| Jan 31, 3:38 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 36 hr |
| Jan 31, 3:44 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | ARX | Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 24 hr |
| Jan 31, 3:48 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 33 more | 25 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:21 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 1 more | 37 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:50 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | DMX | Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun and 23 more | 36 hr |
| Feb 6, 3:18 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | ARX | Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell | 13 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Buena Vista County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Ida County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Floyd County2
- Howard County2
- Mitchell County2
- Audubon County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Boone County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Crawford County2
- Dallas County2
- Emmet County2
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
- Grundy County2
- Guthrie County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hancock County2
- Hardin County2
- Humboldt County2
- Kossuth County2
- Marshall County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Sac County2
- Story County2
- Webster County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Wright County2
24 more counties
- Lyon County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
- Fremont County1
- Harrison County1
- Mills County1
- Monona County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby County1
- Fayette County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Cass County1
- Jasper County1
- Madison County1
- Polk County1
- Tama County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Warren 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. Rebuilt daily.