Weather alerts in Marion County, Iowa

3,291 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Marion County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,291
Warnings: 946
Watches: 709
Advisories: 706
Busiest year: 2008257 alerts
Average year: 80over 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	533
Tornado Warning	87
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	307
Tornado Watch	154
Mesoscale Discussion	860
Special Weather Statement	70
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	31
Flash Flood Warning	58
River Flood Warning	76
Flash Flood Watch	101
Flood Watch	28
River Flood Watch	5
Areal Flood Advisory	16
Winter
Blizzard Warning	12
Ice Storm Warning	6
Snow Squall Warning	5
Winter Storm Warning	40
Blizzard Watch	6
Winter Storm Watch	59
Blowing Snow Advisory	4
Freezing Rain Advisory	11
Snow Advisory	13
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	6
Winter Weather Advisory	148
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	14
Extreme Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	10
Extreme Heat Watch	4
Heat Advisory	77
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	32
Wind Chill Warning	9
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	10
Wind Chill Watch	3
Cold Weather Advisory	10
Frost Advisory	28
Wind Chill Advisory	70
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	15
High Wind Watch	9
Wind Advisory	128
Fire
Red Flag Warning	23
Fire Weather Watch	11
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	1
Dense Fog Advisory	193
Freezing Fog Advisory	1

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 8, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DMX	50 min
Sep 8, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DMX	39 min
Jul 25, 2:53 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DMX	67 hr
Jul 20, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	28 min
Jul 20, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	45 min
Jul 20, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	49 min
Jul 4, 6:39 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DMX	4 days
Jul 4, 2:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	49 min
Jun 27, 12:50 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DMX	6 days
Jun 17, 6:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	55 min
Jun 12, 8:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DMX	36 hr
Jun 11, 8:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DMX	65 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.