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Extreme Cold Warnings in Iowa, February 2025
8 extreme cold warnings in February 2025. 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 in February 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Warnings
- 8
- Busiest day
- February 17, 20255 extreme cold warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 2:38 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 5 more | 33 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:51 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | OAX | Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 33 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:57 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 33 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:25 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 31 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:44 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 32 more | 32 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:21 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 43 hr |
| Feb 19, 3:37 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford and 4 more | 29 hr |
| Feb 19, 12:59 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FSD | Ida, Woodbury | 20 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Harrison County2
- Mills County2
- Monona County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Ida County2
- Woodbury County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Audubon County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Crawford County2
- Guthrie County2
- Union County2
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Linn County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Allamakee County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
38 more counties
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Dallas County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Jasper County1
- Kossuth County1
- Madison County1
- Marshall County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Sac County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Fremont County1
- Page County1
- Ringgold County1
- Taylor County1
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.