Weather alerts in Calhoun County, Iowa

3,041 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Calhoun County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 3,041
Warnings: 744
Watches: 629
Advisories: 794
Busiest year: 2008200 alerts
Average year: 74over 41 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 product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	422
Tornado Warning	61
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	280
Tornado Watch	129
Mesoscale Discussion	797
Special Weather Statement	77
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	16
Flash Flood Warning	38
Flash Flood Watch	71
Flood Watch	25
Areal Flood Advisory	7
Winter
Blizzard Warning	25
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	46
Blizzard Watch	7
Winter Storm Watch	60
Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Freezing Rain Advisory	7
Snow Advisory	14
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	11
Winter Weather Advisory	172
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	8
Extreme Heat Warning	4
Excessive Heat Watch	9
Extreme Heat Watch	4
Heat Advisory	55
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	3
Freeze Warning	30
Wind Chill Warning	23
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	7
Wind Chill Watch	4
Cold Weather Advisory	12
Frost Advisory	33
Wind Chill Advisory	109
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	27
High Wind Watch	12
Wind Advisory	204
Fire
Red Flag Warning	37
Fire Weather Watch	19
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	2
Dense Fog Advisory	162
Freezing Fog Advisory	1

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 6, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	47 min
Sep 6, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	43 min
Jul 25, 2:53 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DMX	67 hr
Jul 8, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	42 min
Jul 8, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	43 min
Jul 4, 3:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	DMX	6 hr
Jul 2, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	50 min
Jul 2, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	43 min
Jun 27, 12:50 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DMX	6 days
Jun 17, 4:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	44 min
Jun 17, 3:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	52 min
May 17, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	63 min

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.