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High Wind Warnings in Iowa, 2025
22 high wind warnings in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Warnings
- 22
- Busiest month
- March10 high wind warnings
- Busiest day
- March 4, 20254 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 2:05 PM CST | High Wind Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 28, 2:12 PM CST | High Wind Warning | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:06 PM CST | High Wind Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 45 hr |
| Mar 4, 2:36 AM CST | High Wind Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 36 hr |
| Mar 4, 11:22 AM CST | High Wind Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 19 hr |
| Mar 4, 12:40 PM CST | High Wind Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 29 hr |
| Mar 4, 1:37 PM CST | High Wind Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 28 hr |
| Mar 14, 4:07 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 76 min |
| Mar 14, 4:54 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | DMX | Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:07 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 40 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:21 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 4 more | 40 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:10 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 42 hr |
| May 19, 8:25 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Ida, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 19, 11:35 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Clay, Dickinson | 85 min |
| Nov 24, 1:42 PM CST | High Wind Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Woodbury | 34 hr |
| Nov 25, 2:47 AM CST | High Wind Warning | OAX | Monona | 21 hr |
| Dec 8, 2:45 PM CST | High Wind Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 39 hr |
| Dec 9, 11:16 AM CST | High Wind Warning | OAX | Harrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 21 hr |
| Dec 9, 1:31 PM CST | High Wind Warning | DMX | Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Crawford and 20 more | 19 hr |
| Dec 17, 2:18 AM CST | High Wind Warning | OAX | Harrison, Monona | 40 hr |
| Dec 17, 2:43 AM CST | High Wind Warning | FSD | Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 42 hr |
| Dec 28, 8:14 AM CST | High Wind Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Monona County6
- Plymouth County6
- Woodbury County6
- Cerro Gordo County5
- Emmet County5
- Franklin County5
- Hamilton County5
- Hancock County5
- Hardin County5
- Humboldt County5
- Kossuth County5
- Marshall County5
- Palo Alto County5
- Story County5
- Wright County5
- Harrison County5
- Sioux County5
- Black Hawk County4
- Bremer County4
- Butler County4
- Grundy County4
- Tama County4
- Fremont County4
- Mills County4
- Montgomery County4
- Page County4
- Pottawattamie County4
- Shelby County4
- Adams County4
- Appanoose County4
- Audubon County4
- Boone County4
- Calhoun County4
- Carroll County4
- Clarke County4
- Crawford County4
- Dallas County4
- Davis County4
- Decatur County4
- Greene County4
51 more counties
- Guthrie County4
- Lucas County4
- Monroe County4
- Pocahontas County4
- Polk County4
- Ringgold County4
- Sac County4
- Taylor County4
- Union County4
- Wapello County4
- Wayne County4
- Webster County4
- Winnebago County4
- Worth County4
- Buena Vista County4
- Cherokee County4
- Clay County4
- Dickinson County4
- Ida County4
- Lyon County4
- O'Brien County4
- Osceola County4
- Adair County3
- Cass County3
- Jasper County3
- Madison County3
- Mahaska County3
- Marion County3
- Poweshiek County3
- Warren County3
- Benton County2
- Buchanan County2
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Jackson County2
- Jones County2
- Linn County2
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington 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.