Freeze Watches in Iowa
63 freeze watches since 1986. 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
Freeze Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Freeze Watches
- 63
- Busiest year
- 201215 freeze watches
- Average year
- 4over 16 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pottawattamie County16
- Mills County15
- Montgomery County15
- Page County15
- Fremont County14
- Harrison County14
- Shelby County14
- Scott County14
- Muscatine County13
- Tama County13
- Buchanan County13
- Cedar County13
- Clinton County13
- Delaware County13
- Dubuque County13
- Jackson County13
- Jones County13
- Linn County13
- Monona County12
- Des Moines County12
- Henry County12
- Jefferson County12
- Louisa County12
- Marshall County12
- Poweshiek County12
- Van Buren County12
- Benton County12
- Johnson County12
- Cass County11
- Clarke County11
- Dallas County11
- Decatur County11
- Jasper County11
- Lee County11
- Lucas County11
- Polk County11
- Ringgold County11
- Story County11
- Taylor County11
- Union County11
59 more counties
- Wayne County11
- Iowa County11
- Adair County10
- Adams County10
- Appanoose County10
- Audubon County10
- Davis County10
- Guthrie County10
- Madison County10
- Marion County10
- Monroe County10
- Wapello County10
- Warren County10
- Keokuk County10
- Washington County10
- Mahaska County9
- Black Hawk County9
- Boone County9
- Carroll County9
- Greene County9
- Grundy County9
- Hardin County9
- Bremer County8
- Butler County8
- Cerro Gordo County8
- Hamilton County8
- Hancock County8
- Winnebago County8
- Worth County8
- Crawford County8
- Allamakee County7
- Calhoun County7
- Chickasaw County7
- Clayton County7
- Emmet County7
- Fayette County7
- Floyd County7
- Franklin County7
- Howard County7
- Kossuth County7
- Mitchell County7
- Palo Alto County7
- Webster County7
- Winneshiek County7
- Wright County7
- Humboldt County6
- Lyon County6
- O'Brien County6
- Sac County6
- Pocahontas County5
- Clay County5
- Dickinson County5
- Osceola County5
- Plymouth County5
- Sioux County5
- Cherokee County4
- Ida County4
- Woodbury County4
- Buena Vista County3
Nearby
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.