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Fire Weather Watches in Iowa, 2015
15 fire weather watches in 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Fire Weather Watches
- 15
- Busiest month
- March12 fire weather watches
- Busiest day
- March 11, 20153 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 3:06 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | 13 hr | |
| Mar 11, 3:54 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | OAX | Monona | 12 hr |
| Mar 11, 4:32 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DMX | Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford, Emmet, Humboldt, Kossuth and 3 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 12, 3:29 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 13, 3:38 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | 36 hr | |
| Mar 14, 3:42 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 14, 11:06 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 29 more | 17 hr |
| Mar 15, 3:48 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 27, 3:20 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | 52 hr | |
| Mar 31, 3:29 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ARX | Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 13 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:38 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DMX | Adair, Appanoose, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler and 39 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:59 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson and 5 more | 12 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:38 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | OAX | Harrison, Monona | 12 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:03 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | 12 hr | |
| Oct 14, 3:04 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | 13 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Monona County4
- Harrison County4
- Calhoun County3
- Carroll County3
- Emmet County3
- Humboldt County3
- Kossuth County3
- Palo Alto County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Fremont County3
- Mills County3
- Montgomery County3
- Page County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Shelby County3
- Crawford County2
- Sac County2
- Adair County2
- Boone County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Clarke County2
- Dallas County2
- Decatur County2
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
- Guthrie County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hancock County2
- Hardin County2
- Madison County2
- Polk County2
- Ringgold County2
- Story County2
- Union County2
- Warren County2
- Webster County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Wright County2
- Adams County1
36 more counties
- Audubon County1
- Cass County1
- Taylor County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Appanoose County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Davis County1
- Grundy County1
- Jasper County1
- Lucas County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Tama County1
- Wapello County1
- Wayne County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Delaware County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Keokuk County1
- Linn County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.