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Freeze Warnings in Iowa, 2023

20 freeze warnings in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Freeze Warnings
20
Busiest month
April12 freeze warnings
Busiest day
October 27, 20234 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 17, 3:00 PM CDTFreeze WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 13 more17 hr
Apr 21, 3:23 AM CDTFreeze WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more30 hr
Apr 21, 3:24 AM CDTFreeze WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 25 more30 hr
Apr 21, 1:51 PM CDTFreeze WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 10 more19 hr
Apr 22, 2:56 AM CDTFreeze WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more30 hr
Apr 22, 3:38 AM CDTFreeze WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 25 more29 hr
Apr 22, 3:03 PM CDTFreeze WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more17 hr
Apr 23, 2:50 AM CDTFreeze WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more29 hr
Apr 23, 11:46 AM CDTFreeze WarningOAXHarrison, Monona, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, Shelby21 hr
Apr 23, 2:31 PM CDTFreeze WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 25 more18 hr
Apr 25, 1:32 PM CDTFreeze WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more18 hr
Apr 25, 2:17 PM CDTFreeze WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Grundy, Marshall, Tama18 hr
Oct 6, 2:05 AM CDTFreeze WarningOAXMonona31 hr
Oct 6, 2:48 AM CDTFreeze WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more30 hr
Oct 27, 2:44 AM CDTFreeze WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 9 more29 hr
Oct 27, 2:49 AM CDTFreeze WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more29 hr
Oct 27, 2:57 AM CDTFreeze WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more31 hr
Oct 27, 3:05 AM CDTFreeze WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Bremer and 26 more31 hr
Oct 29, 2:38 AM CDTFreeze WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more31 hr
Oct 29, 3:41 AM CDTFreeze WarningARXAllamakee, Clayton28 hr

By county

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

44 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. October 27, 20234freeze warnings
  2. April 21, 20233freeze warnings
  3. April 22, 20233freeze warnings
  4. April 23, 20233freeze warnings
  5. April 25, 20232freeze warnings
  6. October 6, 20232freeze warnings
  7. October 29, 20232freeze warnings
  8. April 17, 20231freeze warnings

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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.