Weather alerts in Polk County, Iowa

3,819 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Polk County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,819
Warnings: 1,324
Watches: 753
Advisories: 725
Busiest year: 2008305 alerts
Average year: 93over 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	667
Tornado Warning	101
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	309
Tornado Watch	155
Mesoscale Discussion	871
Special Weather Statement	146
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	26
Flash Flood Warning	102
River Flood Warning	243
Flash Flood Watch	97
Flood Watch	28
River Flood Watch	49
Areal Flood Advisory	18
Winter
Blizzard Warning	15
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	4
Snow Squall Warning	8
Winter Storm Warning	44
Blizzard Watch	6
Winter Storm Watch	60
Blowing Snow Advisory	4
Freezing Rain Advisory	8
Snow Advisory	11
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	7
Winter Weather Advisory	167
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	14
Extreme Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	10
Extreme Heat Watch	4
Heat Advisory	78
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	3
Freeze Warning	32
Wind Chill Warning	12
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	11
Wind Chill Watch	3
Cold Weather Advisory	9
Frost Advisory	27
Wind Chill Advisory	78
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	21
High Wind Watch	10
Wind Advisory	148
Fire
Red Flag Warning	28
Fire Weather Watch	9
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	2
Dense Fog Advisory	167
Freezing Fog Advisory	1

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 17, 9:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DMX	13 hr
Sep 15, 2:13 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DMX	4 hr
Sep 15, 1:45 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DMX	28 hr
Sep 9, 4:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DMX	16 hr
Sep 9, 2:08 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DMX	17 hr
Sep 9, 1:49 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	5 hr
Sep 9, 1:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DMX	15 hr
Sep 8, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DMX	50 min
Sep 8, 6:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	6 hr
Sep 8, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DMX	39 min
Sep 8, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	40 min
Aug 16, 10:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DMX	23 hr

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.