Weather alerts in Crawford County, Iowa

2,914 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Crawford County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,914
Warnings: 651
Watches: 642
Advisories: 721
Busiest year: 2008194 alerts
Average year: 71over 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	350
Tornado Warning	54
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	287
Tornado Watch	136
Mesoscale Discussion	831
Special Weather Statement	69
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	8
Flash Flood Warning	43
Flash Flood Watch	73
Flood Watch	23
Areal Flood Advisory	5
Winter
Blizzard Warning	22
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	4
Winter Storm Warning	38
Blizzard Watch	9
Winter Storm Watch	57
Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Freezing Rain Advisory	5
Snow Advisory	12
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	10
Winter Weather Advisory	160
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	9
Extreme Heat Warning	4
Excessive Heat Watch	9
Extreme Heat Watch	4
Heat Advisory	59
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	4
Freeze Warning	35
Wind Chill Warning	15
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	8
Wind Chill Watch	4
Cold Weather Advisory	9
Frost Advisory	35
Wind Chill Advisory	87
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	24
High Wind Watch	11
Wind Advisory	187
Fire
Red Flag Warning	40
Fire Weather Watch	19
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	2
Dense Fog Advisory	143
Freezing Fog Advisory	2

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 6, 4:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	3 hr
Sep 6, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	43 min
Aug 13, 5:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	51 min
Aug 13, 4:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	31 min
Aug 13, 4:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	46 min
Jul 25, 2:53 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DMX	67 hr
Jul 8, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	43 min
Jun 27, 12:50 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DMX	6 days
May 17, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	79 min
May 17, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	56 min
May 1, 1:19 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	DMX	19 hr
Apr 23, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	57 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.