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High Wind Watches in Iowa, 2025
7 high wind watches 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 7
- Busiest month
- March5 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- March 17, 20253 high wind watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 1:50 PM CST | High Wind Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 25 hr |
| Mar 3, 2:39 PM CST | High Wind Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 17, 2:50 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 17, 2:50 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 4 more | 13 hr |
| Mar 17, 3:24 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Dec 16, 1:53 PM CST | High Wind Watch | OAX | Monona | 12 hr |
| Dec 16, 1:57 PM CST | High Wind Watch | FSD | Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 13 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Monona County3
- Fremont County2
- Harrison County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Appanoose County2
- Audubon County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Boone County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Clarke County2
- Crawford County2
- Dallas County2
- Davis County2
- Decatur County2
- Emmet County2
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
- Grundy County2
- Guthrie County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hancock County2
- Hardin County2
- Humboldt County2
- Jasper County2
- Kossuth County2
- Lucas County2
- Madison County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
30 more counties
- Marshall County2
- Monroe County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Polk County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Ringgold County2
- Sac County2
- Story County2
- Tama County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Wapello County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Webster County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Wright County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Woodbury County2
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Lyon 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.