Alert archive / Iowa / High Wind Watches
High Wind Watches in Iowa, 2026
9 high wind watches in 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- March9 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- March 11, 20264 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 10, 11:57 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 21 hr |
| Mar 11, 11:06 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 11, 11:23 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | DMX | Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 21 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 11, 12:53 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Linn | 14 hr |
| Mar 11, 9:54 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | OAX | Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie | 13 hr |
| Mar 12, 3:48 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Cass, Clarke, Lucas, Madison and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:44 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 14, 2:00 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 14, 3:09 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Black Hawk County2
- Boone County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Crawford County2
- Emmet County2
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
- Grundy County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hancock County2
- Hardin County2
- Humboldt County2
- Kossuth County2
- Marshall County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Sac County2
- Story County2
- Tama County2
- Webster County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Wright County2
- Benton County2
- Buchanan County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Linn County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Cass County2
- Clarke County2
- Lucas County2
59 more counties
- Madison County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Union County2
- Wapello County2
- Warren County2
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
- Allamakee County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Fremont County1
- Harrison County1
- Monona County1
- Page County1
- Shelby County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington County1
- Appanoose County1
- Audubon County1
- Dallas County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Guthrie County1
- Jasper County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold County1
- Taylor County1
- Wayne County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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.