Weather alerts in Franklin County, Iowa

2,998 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Franklin County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,998
Warnings: 725
Watches: 600
Advisories: 846
Busiest year: 2008199 alerts
Average year: 77over 39 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	380
Tornado Warning	45
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	270
Tornado Watch	120
Mesoscale Discussion	761
Special Weather Statement	66
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	34
Flash Flood Warning	48
Flash Flood Watch	68
Flood Watch	21
River Flood Watch	3
Areal Flood Advisory	9
Winter
Blizzard Warning	29
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	60
Blizzard Watch	9
Winter Storm Watch	66
Blowing Snow Advisory	9
Freezing Rain Advisory	9
Snow Advisory	12
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	6
Winter Weather Advisory	210
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	8
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	7
Extreme Heat Watch	4
Heat Advisory	44
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	3
Freeze Warning	33
Wind Chill Warning	30
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	7
Wind Chill Watch	5
Cold Weather Advisory	12
Frost Advisory	33
Wind Chill Advisory	125
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	22
High Wind Watch	10
Wind Advisory	180
Fire
Red Flag Warning	27
Fire Weather Watch	8
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	2
Dense Fog Advisory	194
Freezing Fog Advisory	1

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 9, 8:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	55 min
Jul 25, 2:53 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DMX	67 hr
Jul 20, 3:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	48 min
Jul 20, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DMX	66 min
Jul 20, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DMX	67 min
Jul 20, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	39 min
Jul 2, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	45 min
Jul 2, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	29 min
Jun 27, 12:50 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DMX	6 days
Jun 11, 8:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	67 min
Jun 10, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	51 min
May 17, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	37 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.