Weather alerts in Dubuque County, Iowa

3,322 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Dubuque County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,322
Warnings: 841
Watches: 611
Advisories: 786
Busiest year: 2008220 alerts
Average year: 81over 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	421
Tornado Warning	69
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	250
Tornado Watch	109
Mesoscale Discussion	709
Special Weather Statement	375
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	14
Flash Flood Warning	85
River Flood Warning	52
Flash Flood Watch	89
Flood Watch	28
River Flood Watch	14
River Flood Advisory	1
Winter
Blizzard Warning	12
Ice Storm Warning	2
Snow Squall Warning	2
Winter Storm Warning	66
Blizzard Watch	4
Winter Storm Watch	75
Blowing Snow Advisory	6
Freezing Rain Advisory	13
Snow Advisory	14
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	4
Winter Weather Advisory	183
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	9
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	8
Extreme Heat Watch	4
Heat Advisory	53
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	3
Freeze Warning	51
Wind Chill Warning	20
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	13
Wind Chill Watch	5
Cold Weather Advisory	11
Frost Advisory	57
Wind Chill Advisory	102
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	14
High Wind Watch	7
Wind Advisory	123
Fire
Red Flag Warning	19
Fire Weather Watch	3
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	2
Dense Fog Advisory	215
Freezing Fog Advisory	2

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 20, 5:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	4 hr
Sep 19, 4:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	6 hr
Aug 21, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	40 min
Aug 21, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	29 min
Aug 11, 7:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	39 min
Aug 11, 7:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DVN	57 min
Jul 25, 2:49 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DVN	67 hr
Jul 2, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	16 min
Jul 2, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	49 min
Jun 27, 1:24 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DVN	6 days
Jun 11, 2:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	4 hr
Jun 11, 9:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	37 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.