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Freeze Warnings in Iowa, 2024

23 freeze warnings in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Freeze Warnings
23
Busiest month
April14 freeze warnings
Busiest day
October 14, 20247 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 18, 1:57 PM CDTFreeze WarningARXChickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek18 hr
Apr 18, 2:30 PM CDTFreeze WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more18 hr
Apr 18, 2:40 PM CDTFreeze WarningOAXHarrison, Monona, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Shelby17 hr
Apr 18, 2:42 PM CDTFreeze WarningDMXAudubon, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 18 more17 hr
Apr 19, 1:08 PM CDTFreeze WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more18 hr
Apr 19, 1:39 PM CDTFreeze WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 13 more18 hr
Apr 19, 1:47 PM CDTFreeze WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more18 hr
Apr 19, 2:18 PM CDTFreeze WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more18 hr
Apr 19, 2:23 PM CDTFreeze WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more18 hr
Apr 20, 1:37 PM CDTFreeze WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more18 hr
Apr 20, 1:43 PM CDTFreeze WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more18 hr
Apr 20, 1:47 PM CDTFreeze WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more18 hr
Apr 20, 1:53 PM CDTFreeze WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more18 hr
Apr 20, 2:03 PM CDTFreeze WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more18 hr
Oct 13, 2:27 PM CDTFreeze WarningOAXHarrison, Monona, Shelby19 hr
Oct 13, 2:32 PM CDTFreeze WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more18 hr
Oct 14, 1:52 PM CDTFreeze WarningFSDDickinson19 hr
Oct 14, 1:59 PM CDTFreeze WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more43 hr
Oct 14, 2:07 PM CDTFreeze WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more43 hr
Oct 14, 2:20 PM CDTFreeze WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more43 hr
Oct 14, 2:52 PM CDTFreeze WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more42 hr
Oct 14, 5:47 PM CDTFreeze WarningARXChickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek15 hr
Oct 14, 5:48 PM CDTFreeze WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Emmet and 14 more14 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. October 14, 20247freeze warnings
  2. April 19, 20245freeze warnings
  3. April 20, 20245freeze warnings
  4. April 18, 20244freeze warnings
  5. October 13, 20242freeze 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.