Alert archive / Iowa / Fire Weather Watches
Fire Weather Watches in Iowa, 2017
3 fire weather watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Fire Weather Watches
- 3
- Busiest month
- March3 fire weather watches
- Busiest day
- March 6, 20173 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 6, 3:28 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | DMX | Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 27 more | 13 hr |
| Mar 6, 4:20 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 6, 4:32 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 11 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Jasper County1
- Kossuth County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion 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
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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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.