Alert archive / Iowa / Freeze Watches
Freeze Watches in Iowa, 2016
5 freeze watches 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
Freeze Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Freeze Watches
- 5
- Busiest month
- April3 freeze watches
- Busiest day
- April 7, 20163 freeze watches
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 7, 3:21 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 32 more | 12 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:40 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:45 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 12 hr |
| Oct 11, 3:29 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Oct 11, 2:59 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 13 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fremont County2
- Harrison County2
- Mills County2
- Monona County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Audubon County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Clarke County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Jasper County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold County1
- Sac County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
38 more counties
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Webster County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Delaware County1
- Des Moines County1
- Dubuque County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Linn County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.