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Frost Advisories in Iowa, 2023
18 frost advisories 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 frost advisories reaches back to 2005.
Frost Advisories by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Frost Advisories
- 18
- Busiest month
- October16 frost advisories
- Busiest day
- October 9, 20235 frost advisories
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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 25, 1:32 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa and 2 more | 18 hr |
| Apr 25, 2:17 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Appanoose, Boone, Davis, Hamilton, Hardin, Jasper and 8 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 6, 2:05 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 31 hr |
| Oct 6, 2:31 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 10 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 6, 2:48 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Clay, Dickinson | 30 hr |
| Oct 8, 1:42 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 19 hr |
| Oct 8, 1:52 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson and 2 more | 19 hr |
| Oct 8, 3:01 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Grundy and 6 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 9, 1:52 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 14 more | 19 hr |
| Oct 9, 2:19 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 19 hr |
| Oct 9, 2:23 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 19 hr |
| Oct 9, 3:01 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 9, 3:04 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 10, 1:47 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 19 hr |
| Oct 10, 2:44 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Hancock and 2 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 10, 2:57 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 5 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 15, 2:05 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | OAX | Harrison, Monona, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 19 hr |
| Oct 15, 2:51 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford, Taylor | 18 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hardin County3
- Harrison County3
- Montgomery County3
- Page County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Shelby County3
- Adams County3
- Audubon County3
- Carroll County3
- Cass County3
- Crawford County3
- Taylor County3
- Allamakee County3
- Chickasaw County3
- Clayton County3
- Fayette County3
- Floyd County3
- Howard County3
- Mitchell County3
- Winneshiek County3
- Benton County3
- Buchanan County3
- Clinton County3
- Delaware County3
- Dubuque County3
- Jackson County3
- Jones County3
- Linn County3
- Black Hawk County3
- Bremer County3
- Butler County3
- Cerro Gordo County3
- Franklin County3
- Hancock County3
- Winnebago County3
- Worth County3
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Keokuk County2
59 more counties
- Louisa County2
- Van Buren County2
- Washington County2
- Appanoose County2
- Boone County2
- Davis County2
- Hamilton County2
- Jasper County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Polk County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Story County2
- Wapello County2
- Webster County2
- Fremont County2
- Mills County2
- Adair County2
- Calhoun County2
- Emmet County2
- Greene County2
- Guthrie County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Ringgold County2
- Sac County2
- Union County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Grundy County2
- Marshall County2
- Tama County2
- Cedar County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Monona County2
- Lee County1
- Iowa County1
- Johnson County1
- Clarke County1
- Dallas County1
- Decatur County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Wright County1
- Cherokee 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.
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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.