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Freeze Warnings in Iowa, 2012

31 freeze warnings in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Freeze Warnings
31
Busiest month
April19 freeze warnings
Busiest day
April 9, 20125 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 5, 3:39 AM CDTFreeze WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more28 hr
Apr 5, 3:00 PM CDTFreeze WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Grundy and 4 more17 hr
Apr 5, 3:25 PM CDTFreeze WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more17 hr
Apr 9, 3:24 AM CDTFreeze WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more31 hr
Apr 9, 3:26 AM CDTFreeze WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 10 more29 hr
Apr 9, 3:38 AM CDTFreeze WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more29 hr
Apr 9, 3:51 AM CDTFreeze WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more29 hr
Apr 9, 4:05 AM CDTFreeze WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more29 hr
Apr 9, 7:41 PM CDTFreeze WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more37 hr
Apr 9, 8:56 PM CDTFreeze WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more36 hr
Apr 10, 3:37 AM CDTFreeze WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more28 hr
Apr 10, 3:56 AM CDTFreeze WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more29 hr
Apr 10, 11:00 AM CDTFreeze WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more23 hr
Apr 11, 3:46 AM CDTFreeze WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more28 hr
Apr 11, 2:30 PM CDTFreeze WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more18 hr
Apr 11, 3:28 PM CDTFreeze WarningFSDBuena Vista, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola14 hr
Apr 11, 3:32 PM CDTFreeze WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more16 hr
Apr 22, 3:02 PM CDTFreeze WarningDVNClinton, Dubuque, Jackson16 hr
Apr 23, 2:07 AM CDTFreeze WarningOAXShelby7 hr
Sep 22, 3:09 AM CDTFreeze WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more29 hr
Sep 22, 3:29 AM CDTFreeze WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 33 more29 hr
Sep 22, 3:35 AM CDTFreeze WarningOAXHarrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more29 hr
Sep 22, 3:06 PM CDTFreeze WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more17 hr
Sep 22, 3:55 PM CDTFreeze WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 9 more16 hr
Oct 4, 3:28 PM CDTFreeze WarningOAXHarrison, Monona, Shelby18 hr
Oct 5, 1:12 PM CDTFreeze WarningDVNCedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson and 8 more20 hr
Oct 5, 3:40 PM CDTFreeze WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more18 hr
Oct 5, 3:46 PM CDTFreeze WarningDMXAdams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas and 6 more17 hr
Oct 6, 3:42 AM CDTFreeze WarningARXAllamakee, Clayton28 hr
Oct 6, 3:10 PM CDTFreeze WarningDVNDes Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine and 2 more18 hr
Oct 26, 3:17 PM CDTFreeze WarningDVNDes Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Van Buren17 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

59 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 9, 20125freeze warnings
  2. April 10, 20125freeze warnings
  3. September 22, 20125freeze warnings
  4. April 11, 20124freeze warnings
  5. April 5, 20123freeze warnings
  6. October 5, 20123freeze warnings
  7. October 6, 20122freeze warnings
  8. April 22, 20121freeze warnings
  9. April 23, 20121freeze warnings
  10. October 4, 20121freeze warnings
  11. October 26, 20121freeze warnings

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.