Alert archive / Iowa

Weather alerts in Des Moines County, Iowa

3,403 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Des Moines County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,403
Warnings
886
Watches
729
Advisories
718
Busiest year
2010248 alerts
Average year
87over 39 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.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 21, 11:47 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningDVN5 days
Sep 21, 11:47 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningDVN5 days
Sep 21, 11:47 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningDVN4 days
Sep 2, 2:02 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningDVN4 days
Aug 19, 4:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDVN2 hr
Aug 19, 2:53 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVN24 min
Aug 15, 9:15 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningDVN57 hr
Aug 15, 3:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDVN5 hr
Aug 14, 4:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDVN6 hr
Aug 14, 3:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDVN6 hr
Aug 12, 7:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN63 min
Jul 25, 2:49 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningDVN67 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.