Extreme Cold Warnings in Iowa
18 extreme cold warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of extreme cold warnings reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Warnings
- 18
- Busiest year
- 202513 extreme cold warnings
- Average year
- 9over 2 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 county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adair County4
- Adams County4
- Audubon County4
- Carroll County4
- Cass County4
- Crawford County4
- Guthrie County4
- Harrison County4
- Ida County4
- Monona County4
- Pottawattamie County4
- Shelby County4
- Union County4
- Woodbury County4
- Allamakee County3
- Benton County3
- Black Hawk County3
- Boone County3
- Bremer County3
- Buchanan County3
- Buena Vista County3
- Butler County3
- Calhoun County3
- Cedar County3
- Cerro Gordo County3
- Cherokee County3
- Chickasaw County3
- Clay County3
- Clayton County3
- Clinton County3
- Dallas County3
- Delaware County3
- Dickinson County3
- Dubuque County3
- Emmet County3
- Fayette County3
- Floyd County3
- Franklin County3
- Greene County3
- Grundy County3
59 more counties
- Hamilton County3
- Hancock County3
- Hardin County3
- Howard County3
- Humboldt County3
- Iowa County3
- Jackson County3
- Jasper County3
- Johnson County3
- Jones County3
- Kossuth County3
- Linn County3
- Lyon County3
- Madison County3
- Marshall County3
- Mitchell County3
- O'Brien County3
- Osceola County3
- Palo Alto County3
- Plymouth County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Polk County3
- Poweshiek County3
- Sac County3
- Sioux County3
- Story County3
- Tama County3
- Webster County3
- Winnebago County3
- Winneshiek County3
- Worth County3
- Wright County3
- Clarke County2
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Keokuk County2
- Lee County2
- Louisa County2
- Lucas County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Mills County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Muscatine County2
- Ringgold County2
- Scott County2
- Taylor County2
- Van Buren County2
- Wapello County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Fremont County1
- Page County1
- Appanoose County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Wayne County1
The latest extreme cold warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 2:38 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 33 hr |
| Jan 22, 2:28 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 33 hr |
| Jan 22, 2:28 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 34 hr |
| Jan 22, 1:39 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | OAX | Harrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 34 hr |
| Jan 21, 11:56 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 48 hr |
Nearby
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.