Extreme Cold Watches in Iowa
10 extreme cold watches 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Watches
- 10
- Busiest year
- 20255 extreme cold watches
- Average year
- 5over 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 County2
- Adams County2
- Allamakee County2
- Appanoose County2
- Audubon County2
- Benton County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Boone County2
- Bremer County2
- Buchanan County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Butler County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Cedar County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Cherokee County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Clarke County2
- Clay County2
- Clayton County2
- Clinton County2
- Crawford County2
- Dallas County2
- Davis County2
- Decatur County2
- Delaware County2
- Des Moines County2
- Dickinson County2
- Dubuque County2
- Emmet County2
- Fayette County2
- Floyd County2
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
- Grundy County2
- Guthrie County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hancock County2
59 more counties
- Hardin County2
- Henry County2
- Howard County2
- Humboldt County2
- Ida County2
- Iowa County2
- Jackson County2
- Jasper County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Jones County2
- Keokuk County2
- Kossuth County2
- Lee County2
- Linn County2
- Louisa County2
- Lucas County2
- Lyon County2
- Madison County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Mitchell County2
- Monona County2
- Monroe County2
- Muscatine County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Plymouth County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Polk County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Ringgold County2
- Sac County2
- Scott County2
- Sioux County2
- Story County2
- Tama County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Van Buren County2
- Wapello County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Wayne County2
- Webster County2
- Winnebago County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Woodbury County2
- Worth County2
- Wright County2
- Fremont County1
- Harrison County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby County1
The latest extreme cold watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 2:46 AM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 31 hr |
| Jan 20, 2:30 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 45 hr |
| Jan 20, 2:13 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | OAX | Monona | 35 hr |
| Jan 20, 1:23 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 37 hr |
| Jan 20, 12:47 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 46 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.