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Fire Weather Watches in Iowa, 2012

24 fire weather watches in 2012. 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 fire weather watches reaches back to 2005.

Fire Weather Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Fire Weather Watches
24
Busiest month
August6 fire weather watches
Busiest day
March 26, 20123 fire weather watches

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 9, 3:41 PM CSTFire Weather WatchOAXMonona12 hr
Mar 9, 3:47 PM CSTFire Weather WatchFSD12 hr
Mar 26, 3:25 AM CDTFire Weather WatchOAXHarrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby24 hr
Mar 26, 11:56 AM CDTFire Weather WatchFSD16 hr
Mar 26, 4:00 PM CDTFire Weather WatchDMXAudubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Crawford, Emmet and 11 more12 hr
Apr 7, 2:44 PM CDTFire Weather WatchFSD12 hr
Apr 8, 1:59 PM CDTFire Weather WatchFSD14 hr
Aug 21, 3:18 PM CDTFire Weather WatchOAXFremont, Page12 hr
Aug 21, 4:19 PM CDTFire Weather WatchFSD11 hr
Aug 28, 3:08 PM CDTFire Weather WatchARXFloyd, Howard, Mitchell24 hr
Aug 28, 3:47 PM CDTFire Weather WatchDMXCerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Winnebago and 1 more24 hr
Aug 28, 4:04 PM CDTFire Weather WatchFSD36 hr
Aug 29, 9:51 AM CDTFire Weather WatchOAXMonona11 hr
Sep 8, 4:19 PM CDTFire Weather WatchFSD19 hr
Sep 10, 4:10 AM CDTFire Weather WatchDMXAudubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cerro Gordo, Crawford and 13 more11 hr
Sep 10, 4:10 AM CDTFire Weather WatchOAXHarrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby11 hr
Sep 18, 11:59 AM CDTFire Weather WatchFSD16 hr
Sep 18, 3:36 PM CDTFire Weather WatchOAXHarrison, Monona, Shelby11 hr
Oct 2, 3:22 PM CDTFire Weather WatchFSD12 hr
Oct 2, 3:30 PM CDTFire Weather WatchOAXHarrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby12 hr
Oct 7, 2:14 PM CDTFire Weather WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more14 hr
Oct 7, 2:35 PM CDTFire Weather WatchFSD13 hr
Oct 7, 3:37 PM CDTFire Weather WatchDMXBremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin, Hancock and 7 more12 hr
Oct 15, 3:41 PM CDTFire Weather WatchFSD22 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 26, 20123fire weather watches
  2. August 28, 20123fire weather watches
  3. October 7, 20123fire weather watches
  4. March 9, 20122fire weather watches
  5. August 21, 20122fire weather watches
  6. September 10, 20122fire weather watches
  7. September 18, 20122fire weather watches
  8. October 2, 20122fire weather watches
  9. April 7, 20121fire weather watches
  10. April 8, 20121fire weather watches
  11. August 29, 20121fire weather watches
  12. September 8, 20121fire weather watches

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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.