Weather alerts in Clarke County, Iowa

3,021 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Clarke County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,021
Warnings: 709
Watches: 707
Advisories: 680
Busiest year: 2008222 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	428
Tornado Warning	57
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	308
Tornado Watch	165
Mesoscale Discussion	851
Special Weather Statement	74
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	16
Flash Flood Warning	49
Flash Flood Watch	103
Flood Watch	24
Areal Flood Advisory	12
Winter
Blizzard Warning	10
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	5
Snow Squall Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	37
Blizzard Watch	4
Winter Storm Watch	53
Blowing Snow Advisory	4
Freezing Rain Advisory	9
Snow Advisory	10
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	6
Winter Weather Advisory	137
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	14
Extreme Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	10
Extreme Heat Watch	4
Heat Advisory	82
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	31
Wind Chill Warning	9
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	11
Wind Chill Watch	3
Cold Weather Advisory	9
Frost Advisory	26
Wind Chill Advisory	61
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	16
High Wind Watch	8
Wind Advisory	125
Fire
Red Flag Warning	30
Fire Weather Watch	12
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	1
Dense Fog Advisory	196
Freezing Fog Advisory	2

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 5, 7:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	6 hr
Jul 25, 2:53 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DMX	67 hr
Jun 27, 12:50 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DMX	6 days
Jun 11, 7:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	DMX	45 min
Jun 11, 6:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DMX	47 min
Jun 10, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	48 min
Jun 10, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	38 min
Jun 5, 11:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	4 hr
Jun 5, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	32 min
Jun 5, 9:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	29 min
May 18, 7:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	DMX	39 min
May 16, 10:08 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	DMX	5 hr

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.