Weather alerts in Ida County, Iowa

2,686 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Ida County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 2,686
Warnings: 568
Watches: 574
Advisories: 750
Busiest year: 2010161 alerts
Average year: 71over 38 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 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	316
Tornado Warning	20
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	271
Tornado Watch	129
Mesoscale Discussion	793
Special Weather Statement	1
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	6
Flash Flood Warning	40
River Flood Warning	2
Flash Flood Watch	49
Flood Watch	19
Winter
Blizzard Warning	22
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	32
Blizzard Watch	8
Winter Storm Watch	45
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	4
Snow Advisory	13
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	167
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	13
Extreme Heat Warning	6
Excessive Heat Watch	7
Extreme Heat Watch	2
Heat Advisory	71
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	4
Freeze Warning	21
Wind Chill Warning	12
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	4
Wind Chill Watch	5
Cold Weather Advisory	10
Frost Advisory	29
Wind Chill Advisory	86
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	26
High Wind Watch	10
Wind Advisory	207
Fire
Red Flag Warning	44
Fire Weather Watch	23
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	2
Dense Fog Advisory	157
Freezing Fog Advisory	2

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 11, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	46 min
Sep 6, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	41 min
Jul 25, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	41 min
Jul 24, 11:24 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	FSD	46 hr
Jul 20, 12:56 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	FSD	19 hr
Jul 8, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	40 min
Jul 8, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	37 min
Jul 8, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	44 min
Jul 1, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	30 min
Jul 1, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FSD	40 min
Jun 29, 12:42 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	FSD	20 hr
May 18, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	49 min

Nearby

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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.