Alert archive / Iowa / Red Flag Warnings / 2012
Red Flag Warnings in Iowa, August 2012
8 red flag warnings in August 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 August 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 8
- Busiest day
- August 29, 20124 red flag warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 3:09 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 16 hr |
| Aug 22, 3:28 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 17 hr | |
| Aug 28, 3:11 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Monona | 29 hr |
| Aug 29, 4:05 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 17 hr | |
| Aug 29, 3:12 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 29 hr | |
| Aug 29, 3:28 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ARX | Floyd, Howard, Mitchell | 29 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:54 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Boone, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Crawford and 16 more | 27 hr |
| Aug 29, 8:32 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Monona | 24 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Monona County3
- Fremont County1
- Harrison County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Boone County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Crawford County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Story County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
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.