Alert archive / Iowa / Howard County
Weather alerts in Howard County, Iowa, 2012
85 weather alerts in 2012, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Howard County and its neighbors
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- Alerts
- 85
- Warnings
- 18
- Watches
- 16
- Advisories
- 29
- Busiest month
- May14 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 24, 20124 alerts
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 | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 3:02 PM CST | Wind Advisory | ARX | 143 days |
| Jan 11, 3:39 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ARX | 41 hr |
| Jan 18, 3:41 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | ARX | 32 hr |
| Jan 19, 3:43 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ARX | 11 hr |
| Jan 19, 2:56 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ARX | 27 hr |
| Jan 22, 3:18 AM CST | Freezing Rain Advisory | ARX | 12 hr |
| Jan 22, 3:17 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ARX | 24 hr |
| Jan 26, 5:53 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ARX | 4 hr |
| Feb 1, 5:29 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ARX | 10 hr |
| Feb 1, 7:37 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ARX | 40 hr |
| Feb 22, 11:13 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ARX | 17 hr |
| Feb 26, 3:56 AM CST | Wind Advisory | ARX | 15 hr |
| Feb 27, 3:52 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ARX | 50 hr |
| Feb 29, 8:47 AM CST | Wind Advisory | ARX | 9 hr |
| Mar 10, 5:06 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | ARX | 13 hr |
| Mar 19, 6:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 62 min |
| Mar 27, 3:46 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ARX | 15 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:42 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | ARX | 35 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:39 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | ARX | 28 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:17 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | ARX | 12 hr |
| Apr 9, 3:24 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | ARX | 31 hr |
| Apr 10, 11:00 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | ARX | 23 hr |
| Apr 11, 2:30 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | ARX | 18 hr |
| Apr 13, 12:53 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | ARX | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:50 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ARX | 18 hr |
| Apr 15, 1:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Apr 15, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Apr 16, 3:56 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ARX | 9 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:47 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | ARX | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 3:22 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | ARX | 6 hr |
| May 1, 11:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 3, 5:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | 31 min |
| May 3, 6:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | 34 min |
| May 3, 6:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | 47 min |
| May 4, 5:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 29 min |
| May 4, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
| May 4, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | 45 min |
| May 5, 11:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 5, 2:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 62 min |
| May 24, 6:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 57 min |
| May 24, 1:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| May 24, 3:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| May 24, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| May 26, 12:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 89 min |
| Jun 15, 5:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 56 min |
| Jun 20, 2:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Jun 26, 3:08 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | ARX | 29 hr |
| Jul 2, 4:02 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | ARX | 24 hr |
| Jul 3, 4:03 AM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | ARX | 5 days |
| Jul 15, 3:36 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | ARX | 65 hr |
| Jul 18, 11:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 67 min |
| Jul 18, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 18, 3:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 53 min |
| Jul 22, 2:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 88 min |
| Jul 23, 11:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 92 min |
| Jul 24, 11:37 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | ARX | 33 hr |
| Jul 25, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jul 25, 7:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Aug 8, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | 52 min |
| Aug 16, 3:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 3:08 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ARX | 24 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:28 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ARX | 29 hr |
| Sep 4, 4:39 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | ARX | 4 hr |
| Sep 4, 1:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Sep 4, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Sep 4, 6:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 66 min |
| Sep 4, 8:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 60 min |
| Sep 4, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Sep 5, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | 44 min |
| Sep 5, 1:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 91 min |
| Sep 10, 2:40 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ARX | 30 hr |
| Sep 21, 2:55 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | ARX | 24 hr |
| Sep 22, 3:06 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | ARX | 17 hr |
| Oct 7, 2:14 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ARX | 14 hr |
| Oct 8, 3:48 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ARX | 15 hr |
| Oct 23, 3:03 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | ARX | 18 hr |
| Oct 24, 6:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Nov 20, 12:13 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ARX | 12 hr |
| Dec 1, 8:57 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ARX | 17 hr |
| Dec 2, 5:57 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ARX | 15 hr |
| Dec 8, 3:53 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ARX | 44 hr |
| Dec 17, 11:50 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ARX | 40 hr |
| Dec 19, 4:03 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ARX | 44 hr |
| Dec 19, 4:03 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | ARX | 44 hr |
| Dec 28, 9:17 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ARX | 9 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 6 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 7 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 22 |
| Winter | |
| Blizzard Warning | 1 |
| Winter Storm Warning | 1 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 3 |
| Freezing Rain Advisory | 1 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 6 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 1 |
| Heat Advisory | 4 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 5 |
| Freeze Watch | 3 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 8 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 4 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 2 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 9 |
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.