Ice Storm Warnings in Iowa
41 ice storm warnings since 1986. 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 ice storm warnings reaches back to 2005.
Ice Storm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Ice Storm Warnings
- 41
- Busiest year
- 20078 ice storm warnings
- Average year
- 3over 12 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Washington County10
- Keokuk County9
- Jefferson County9
- Henry County8
- Lee County8
- Van Buren County8
- Appanoose County7
- Davis County7
- Des Moines County7
- Louisa County7
- Marshall County7
- Wapello County7
- Iowa County6
- Johnson County6
- Decatur County6
- Jasper County6
- Lucas County6
- Marion County6
- Monroe County6
- Poweshiek County6
- Story County6
- Wayne County6
- Cedar County5
- Adair County5
- Adams County5
- Cass County5
- Clarke County5
- Madison County5
- Mahaska County5
- Monona County5
- Ringgold County5
- Taylor County5
- Union County5
- Warren County5
- Tama County5
- Clay County5
- O'Brien County5
- Dickinson County5
- Osceola County5
- Clinton County4
57 more counties
- Boone County4
- Carroll County4
- Crawford County4
- Dallas County4
- Guthrie County4
- Harrison County4
- Montgomery County4
- Muscatine County4
- Polk County4
- Scott County4
- Benton County4
- Black Hawk County4
- Buchanan County4
- Delaware County4
- Grundy County4
- Hardin County4
- Linn County4
- Sioux County4
- Jones County3
- Audubon County3
- Fremont County3
- Greene County3
- Mills County3
- Page County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Shelby County3
- Clayton County3
- Fayette County3
- Hamilton County3
- Buena Vista County3
- Calhoun County3
- Cherokee County3
- Ida County3
- Plymouth County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Sac County3
- Webster County3
- Woodbury County3
- Bremer County3
- Butler County3
- Franklin County3
- Jackson County2
- Dubuque County2
- Humboldt County2
- Wright County2
- Lyon County2
- Allamakee County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Emmet County1
- Floyd County1
- Hancock County1
- Kossuth County1
- Mitchell County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
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. Rebuilt daily.