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Frost Advisories in Iowa, 2024
11 frost advisories 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 frost advisories reaches back to 2005.
Frost Advisories by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Frost Advisories
- 11
- Busiest month
- October6 frost advisories
- Busiest day
- April 18, 20244 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 18, 1:57 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Clayton | 18 hr |
| Apr 18, 2:13 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Iowa, Jackson and 2 more | 18 hr |
| Apr 18, 2:40 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Page | 17 hr |
| Apr 18, 2:42 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Black Hawk, Boone, Clarke, Dallas and 17 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 21, 2:15 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:22 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 31 hr |
| Oct 13, 3:04 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 11 hr |
| Oct 13, 3:08 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 18 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 14, 2:51 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 14 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 14, 2:57 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 14, 3:22 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 30 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County3
- Buchanan County3
- Delaware County3
- Dubuque County3
- Iowa County3
- Jackson County3
- Jones County3
- Linn County3
- Adair County3
- Adams County3
- Guthrie County3
- Taylor County3
- Allamakee County2
- Clayton County2
- Fremont County2
- Mills County2
- Page County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Boone County2
- Clarke County2
- Dallas County2
- Decatur County2
- Jasper County2
- Lucas County2
- Madison County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Polk County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Ringgold County2
- Story County2
- Tama County2
- Union County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
59 more counties
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Keokuk County2
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Van Buren County2
- Washington County2
- Audubon County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Crawford County2
- Emmet County2
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hancock County2
- Humboldt County2
- Kossuth County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Sac County2
- Webster County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Wright County2
- Lee County1
- Harrison County1
- Monona County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby 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
- Appanoose County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Davis County1
- Grundy County1
- Hardin County1
- Monroe County1
- Wapello County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek 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.