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High Wind Warnings in Iowa, 2021
9 high wind warnings 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 high wind warnings reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Warnings
- 9
- Busiest month
- December5 high wind warnings
- Busiest day
- December 14, 20215 high wind warnings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 3:30 PM CST | High Wind Warning | OAX | Harrison, Monona | 51 hr |
| Jan 13, 3:32 PM CST | High Wind Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Ida, Lyon, O'Brien and 4 more | 44 hr |
| Mar 10, 2:15 PM CST | High Wind Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 11, 8:16 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | DVN | Clinton, Des Moines, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott | 104 min |
| Dec 14, 2:20 AM CST | High Wind Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 44 hr |
| Dec 14, 4:04 AM CST | High Wind Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 47 hr |
| Dec 14, 4:09 AM CST | High Wind Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 47 hr |
| Dec 14, 2:33 PM CST | High Wind Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 39 hr |
| Dec 14, 2:46 PM CST | High Wind Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 39 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Harrison County2
- Monona County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Ida County2
- Lyon County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Woodbury County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Audubon County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Crawford County2
- Guthrie County2
- Ringgold County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Clinton County2
- Des Moines County2
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Fremont County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby County1
- Dickinson County1
- Appanoose County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
59 more counties
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Clarke County1
- Dallas County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Jasper County1
- Kossuth County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Sac County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Cedar County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Linn County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington County1
- Allamakee County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek 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. Rebuilt daily.