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Red Flag Warnings in Iowa, 2012

35 red flag warnings in 2012. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of red flag warnings reaches back to 2005.

Red Flag Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Red Flag Warnings
35
Busiest month
September10 red flag warnings
Busiest day
August 29, 20124 red flag warnings

Over time

By month

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 9, 3:47 PM CSTRed Flag WarningFSD26 hr
Mar 10, 3:30 AM CSTRed Flag WarningOAXHarrison, Monona15 hr
Mar 10, 5:06 AM CSTRed Flag WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more13 hr
Mar 26, 11:56 AM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD31 hr
Mar 26, 3:34 PM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXMonona28 hr
Apr 1, 4:25 PM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD4 hr
Apr 7, 3:23 AM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD16 hr
Apr 8, 3:07 AM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD17 hr
Apr 9, 3:36 AM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD16 hr
Apr 9, 3:49 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDMXEmmet, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Sac15 hr
Aug 22, 3:09 AM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more16 hr
Aug 22, 3:28 AM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD17 hr
Aug 28, 3:11 PM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXMonona29 hr
Aug 29, 4:05 AM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD17 hr
Aug 29, 3:12 PM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD29 hr
Aug 29, 3:28 PM CDTRed Flag WarningARXFloyd, Howard, Mitchell29 hr
Aug 29, 3:54 PM CDTRed Flag WarningDMXBoone, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Crawford and 16 more27 hr
Aug 29, 8:32 PM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXMonona24 hr
Sep 8, 3:34 AM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD15 hr
Sep 8, 3:46 AM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXMonona15 hr
Sep 9, 11:30 AM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD58 hr
Sep 9, 12:45 PM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXMonona30 hr
Sep 10, 2:40 PM CDTRed Flag WarningARXChickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell30 hr
Sep 10, 3:24 PM CDTRed Flag WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Bremer, Butler and 30 more28 hr
Sep 10, 3:39 PM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more27 hr
Sep 19, 2:22 AM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXHarrison, Monona17 hr
Sep 19, 4:11 AM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD16 hr
Sep 21, 12:57 PM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD6 hr
Oct 3, 3:41 AM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD15 hr
Oct 3, 3:49 AM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more15 hr
Oct 8, 3:14 AM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD16 hr
Oct 8, 3:25 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDMXBremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Crawford and 13 more16 hr
Oct 8, 3:33 AM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXHarrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby14 hr
Oct 8, 3:48 AM CDTRed Flag WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more15 hr
Oct 16, 2:05 PM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD29 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

12 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. August 29, 20124red flag warnings
  2. October 8, 20124red flag warnings
  3. September 10, 20123red flag warnings
  4. March 10, 20122red flag warnings
  5. March 26, 20122red flag warnings
  6. April 9, 20122red flag warnings
  7. August 22, 20122red flag warnings
  8. September 8, 20122red flag warnings
  9. September 9, 20122red flag warnings
  10. September 19, 20122red flag warnings
  11. October 3, 20122red flag warnings
  12. March 9, 20121red flag warnings

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.