Weather alerts in Jones County, Iowa

3,521 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Jones County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,521
Warnings: 948
Watches: 650
Advisories: 807
Busiest year: 2008241 alerts
Average year: 86over 41 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	471
Tornado Warning	105
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	270
Tornado Watch	129
Mesoscale Discussion	772
Special Weather Statement	344
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	16
Flash Flood Warning	84
River Flood Warning	70
Flash Flood Watch	90
Flood Watch	29
River Flood Watch	16
River Flood Advisory	5
Winter
Blizzard Warning	13
Ice Storm Warning	3
Snow Squall Warning	2
Winter Storm Warning	64
Blizzard Watch	4
Winter Storm Watch	71
Blowing Snow Advisory	6
Freezing Rain Advisory	12
Snow Advisory	13
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	185
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	10
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	8
Extreme Heat Watch	4
Heat Advisory	64
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	3
Freeze Warning	52
Wind Chill Warning	20
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	13
Wind Chill Watch	5
Cold Weather Advisory	11
Frost Advisory	55
Wind Chill Advisory	101
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	14
High Wind Watch	6
Wind Advisory	125
Fire
Red Flag Warning	19
Fire Weather Watch	3
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	2
Dense Fog Advisory	221
Freezing Fog Advisory	2

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 20, 7:55 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DVN	6 hr
Sep 20, 5:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	4 hr
Sep 20, 2:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	6 hr
Sep 8, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DVN	46 min
Aug 21, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	21 min
Aug 21, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	21 min
Aug 21, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	40 min
Aug 11, 7:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DVN	61 min
Aug 11, 7:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	DVN	49 min
Aug 11, 7:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	81 min
Aug 7, 5:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	57 min
Aug 7, 5:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	43 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.