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Freeze Warnings in Iowa, 2008
10 freeze warnings in 2008. 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 freeze warnings reaches back to 2005.
Freeze Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Freeze Warnings
- 10
- Busiest month
- October8 freeze warnings
- Busiest day
- October 15, 20083 freeze warnings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:21 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 28 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:48 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Cass and 22 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 13, 3:33 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | FSD | Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth and 2 more | 17 hr |
| Oct 15, 3:05 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 15, 3:28 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | OAX | Harrison, Monona, Shelby | 18 hr |
| Oct 15, 3:44 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | DMX | Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cerro Gordo, Crawford and 11 more | 17 hr |
| Oct 20, 3:29 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 1 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 26, 4:06 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DVN | Benton, Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa and 12 more | 22 hr |
| Oct 26, 3:17 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 27, 3:36 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DVN | Benton, Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa and 12 more | 29 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County4
- Jackson County4
- Jones County4
- Linn County4
- Cedar County3
- Clinton County3
- Des Moines County3
- Henry County3
- Iowa County3
- Jefferson County3
- Johnson County3
- Keokuk County3
- Lee County3
- Louisa County3
- Muscatine County3
- Scott County3
- Van Buren County3
- Washington County3
- Buchanan County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Audubon County2
- Cass County2
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Lyon County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Woodbury County2
- Harrison County2
- Monona County2
- Shelby County2
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Boone County1
- Clarke County1
- Dallas County1
43 more counties
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Guthrie County1
- Jasper County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Ida County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Crawford County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Hancock County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Fremont County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie 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.