Blowing Snow Advisories in Iowa
24 blowing snow advisories since 1986. 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 blowing snow advisories reaches back to 2005.
Blowing Snow Advisories by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Blowing Snow Advisories
- 24
- Busiest year
- 200813 blowing snow advisories
- Average year
- 6over 4 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bremer County10
- Butler County10
- Black Hawk County9
- Cerro Gordo County9
- Franklin County9
- Grundy County9
- Hancock County9
- Hardin County9
- Winnebago County9
- Worth County9
- Wright County9
- Humboldt County8
- Kossuth County8
- Boone County7
- Emmet County7
- Hamilton County7
- Marshall County7
- Palo Alto County7
- Pocahontas County7
- Story County7
- Webster County7
- Greene County6
- Tama County6
- Benton County6
- Buchanan County6
- Cedar County6
- Clinton County6
- Delaware County6
- Dubuque County6
- Iowa County6
- Jackson County6
- Johnson County6
- Jones County6
- Linn County6
- Calhoun County5
- Carroll County5
- Crawford County5
- Poweshiek County5
- Sac County5
- Keokuk County5
59 more counties
- Louisa County5
- Muscatine County5
- Scott County5
- Washington County5
- Adair County4
- Adams County4
- Appanoose County4
- Clarke County4
- Dallas County4
- Davis County4
- Jasper County4
- Madison County4
- Mahaska County4
- Marion County4
- Monona County4
- Monroe County4
- Polk County4
- Ringgold County4
- Taylor County4
- Union County4
- Wapello County4
- Warren County4
- Audubon County3
- Cass County3
- Decatur County3
- Guthrie County3
- Lucas County3
- Wayne County3
- Des Moines County3
- Harrison County3
- Henry County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lee County3
- Shelby County3
- Van Buren County3
- Fremont County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Fayette County2
- Floyd County2
- Howard County2
- Mitchell County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
- Allamakee County1
- Clayton County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.