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Frost Advisories in Iowa, 2021
30 frost advisories in 2021. 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 frost advisories reaches back to 2005.
Frost Advisories by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Frost Advisories
- 30
- Busiest month
- May15 frost advisories
- Busiest day
- May 10, 20215 frost advisories
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 13, 2:47 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Cedar, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson, Johnson and 7 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 13, 2:51 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis and 12 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 14, 2:45 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa and 2 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:14 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Adair, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas and 9 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 19, 11:47 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 24, 2:25 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 5 more | 18 hr |
| May 5, 2:24 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | FSD | Lyon | 18 hr |
| May 7, 1:37 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 18 hr |
| May 7, 1:48 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Buchanan, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones | 18 hr |
| May 10, 1:52 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 18 hr |
| May 10, 2:14 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Emmet and 14 more | 18 hr |
| May 10, 2:28 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 1 more | 18 hr |
| May 10, 3:12 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 17 hr |
| May 10, 3:24 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | OAX | Monona | 17 hr |
| May 11, 1:45 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 18 hr |
| May 11, 2:26 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 13 more | 17 hr |
| May 11, 2:32 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Grundy and 5 more | 16 hr |
| May 28, 3:30 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more | 28 hr |
| May 28, 10:36 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 20 hr |
| May 28, 2:11 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | FSD | Dickinson | 17 hr |
| May 28, 2:58 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin and 14 more | 16 hr |
| Oct 15, 3:13 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 15, 3:30 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 15, 1:08 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 19 more | 20 hr |
| Oct 21, 2:49 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Adams, Dallas, Jasper, Madison, Mahaska, Marion and 7 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 21, 3:07 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Clayton | 30 hr |
| Oct 21, 3:12 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 31 hr |
| Oct 21, 3:24 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Iowa, Jones and 1 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 22, 2:22 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Iowa, Johnson, Keokuk, Louisa and 3 more | 19 hr |
| Oct 22, 2:39 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Adair, Audubon, Cass, Dallas, Guthrie, Jasper and 6 more | 18 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Iowa County7
- Buchanan County7
- Delaware County7
- Dubuque County7
- Jones County7
- Cedar County6
- Johnson County6
- Benton County6
- Clinton County6
- Jackson County6
- Linn County6
- Allamakee County5
- Clayton County5
- Keokuk County4
- Louisa County4
- Muscatine County4
- Scott County4
- Washington County4
- Adair County4
- Madison County4
- Mahaska County4
- Marion County4
- Warren County4
- Chickasaw County4
- Fayette County4
- Floyd County4
- Howard County4
- Mitchell County4
- Winneshiek County4
- Cerro Gordo County4
- Worth County4
- Poweshiek County4
- Des Moines County3
- Henry County3
- Jefferson County3
- Adams County3
- Cass County3
- Ringgold County3
- Taylor County3
- Union County3
59 more counties
- Lyon County3
- Black Hawk County3
- Bremer County3
- Butler County3
- Emmet County3
- Franklin County3
- Grundy County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hancock County3
- Hardin County3
- Humboldt County3
- Kossuth County3
- Winnebago County3
- Wright County3
- Dickinson County3
- Tama County3
- Jasper County3
- Dallas County3
- Lee County2
- Van Buren County2
- Appanoose County2
- Clarke County2
- Davis County2
- Decatur County2
- Lucas County2
- Monroe County2
- Wapello County2
- Wayne County2
- Calhoun County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Sac County2
- Webster County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Ida County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Woodbury County2
- Monona County2
- Marshall County2
- Fremont County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Audubon County2
- Guthrie County2
- Polk County2
- Story County1
- Harrison County1
- Shelby County1
- Boone County1
- Carroll County1
- Crawford County1
- Greene 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.