Alert archive / Iowa / Blizzard Watches / 2016
Blizzard Watches in Iowa, February 2016
3 blizzard watches in February 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 February 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- February 5, 20162 blizzard watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Audubon County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Marshall County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Story County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell 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.