Weather alerts in Floyd County, Iowa

2,822 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Floyd County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 2,822
Warnings: 565
Watches: 571
Advisories: 765
Busiest year: 2008162 alerts
Average year: 69over 41 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 product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	214
Tornado Warning	35
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	251
Tornado Watch	111
Mesoscale Discussion	751
Special Weather Statement	169
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	23
Flash Flood Warning	50
River Flood Warning	65
Flash Flood Watch	60
Flood Watch	18
River Flood Watch	16
Areal Flood Advisory	22
River Flood Statement	1
Winter
Blizzard Warning	20
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	65
Blizzard Watch	5
Winter Storm Watch	77
Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	12
Snow Advisory	8
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	194
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	8
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	4
Extreme Heat Watch	3
Heat Advisory	50
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	3
Freeze Warning	32
Wind Chill Warning	17
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	7
Wind Chill Watch	3
Cold Weather Advisory	10
Frost Advisory	30
Wind Chill Advisory	116
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	7
High Wind Watch	5
Wind Advisory	133
Fire
Red Flag Warning	22
Fire Weather Watch	9
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	2
Dense Fog Advisory	178
Freezing Fog Advisory	3

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 7, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	54 min
Aug 7, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	57 min
Jul 25, 2:20 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	ARX	67 hr
Jul 20, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	52 min
Jul 8, 8:44 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ARX	64 hr
Jul 8, 7:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	3 hr
Jul 2, 2:11 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ARX	71 hr
Jul 2, 12:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	59 min
Jun 28, 8:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	76 min
Jun 28, 12:34 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	ARX	68 hr
Jun 10, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	34 min
May 17, 10:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	51 min

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. Rebuilt daily.