Weather alerts in Lee County, Iowa

3,377 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Lee County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,377
Warnings: 985
Watches: 673
Advisories: 674
Busiest year: 2010281 alerts
Average year: 87over 39 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	401
Tornado Warning	49
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	263
Tornado Watch	135
Mesoscale Discussion	703
Special Weather Statement	342
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	21
Flash Flood Warning	97
River Flood Warning	269
Flash Flood Watch	106
Flood Watch	37
River Flood Watch	45
Areal Flood Advisory	1
River Flood Advisory	8
Winter
Blizzard Warning	8
Ice Storm Warning	8
Winter Storm Warning	34
Blizzard Watch	2
Winter Storm Watch	45
Blowing Snow Advisory	3
Freezing Rain Advisory	8
Snow Advisory	8
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	4
Winter Weather Advisory	139
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	16
Extreme Heat Warning	4
Excessive Heat Watch	9
Extreme Heat Watch	4
Heat Advisory	110
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	40
Wind Chill Warning	8
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	11
Wind Chill Watch	4
Cold Weather Advisory	11
Frost Advisory	28
Wind Chill Advisory	62
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	6
High Wind Watch	5
Wind Advisory	105
Fire
Red Flag Warning	22
Fire Weather Watch	5
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	1
Dense Fog Advisory	184
Freezing Fog Advisory	2

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 21, 11:47 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	5 days
Sep 15, 10:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	6 hr
Sep 2, 2:02 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DVN	4 days
Aug 19, 4:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	2 hr
Aug 15, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	34 min
Aug 15, 9:15 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	57 hr
Aug 15, 8:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DVN	6 hr
Aug 15, 3:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	5 hr
Aug 15, 12:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	6 hr
Aug 14, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	64 min
Aug 12, 8:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	55 min
Aug 12, 7:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	36 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.