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Freeze Warnings in Iowa, 2016
12 freeze warnings in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Freeze Warnings
- 12
- Busiest month
- April6 freeze warnings
- Busiest day
- October 12, 20165 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 8, 3:16 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 30 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:17 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 30 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:34 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 25 more | 29 hr |
| Apr 11, 9:42 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 29 more | 23 hr |
| Apr 11, 9:42 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 23 hr |
| Apr 11, 9:57 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 23 hr |
| May 13, 3:27 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | FSD | Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux | 30 hr |
| Oct 12, 3:24 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 12, 3:25 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 31 hr |
| Oct 12, 3:39 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 12, 3:45 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Iowa, Jackson and 4 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 12, 3:53 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 39 more | 29 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County3
- Buchanan County3
- Delaware County3
- Dubuque County3
- Iowa County3
- Jackson County3
- Johnson County3
- Jones County3
- Keokuk County3
- Linn County3
- Fremont County3
- Harrison County3
- Mills County3
- Monona County3
- Montgomery County3
- Page County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Shelby County3
- Adair County3
- Adams County3
- Audubon County3
- Boone County3
- Carroll County3
- Cass County3
- Clarke County3
- Crawford County3
- Dallas County3
- Greene County3
- Guthrie County3
- Jasper County3
- Lucas County3
- Madison County3
- Mahaska County3
- Marion County3
- Marshall County3
- Polk County3
- Poweshiek County3
- Ringgold County3
- Story County3
- Tama County3
59 more counties
- Taylor County3
- Union County3
- Warren County3
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lee County2
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Van Buren County2
- Washington County2
- Appanoose County2
- Davis County2
- Decatur County2
- Monroe County2
- Wapello County2
- Wayne County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Grundy County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Lyon County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Sioux County2
- Allamakee County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Ida County1
- Plymouth County1
- Woodbury County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Hancock County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.