Alert archive / Iowa / Red Flag Warnings
Red Flag Warnings in Iowa, 2013
6 red flag warnings in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 6
- Busiest month
- May5 red flag warnings
- Busiest day
- May 14, 20133 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 12:31 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 5 hr | |
| May 13, 3:12 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 29 hr | |
| May 14, 2:15 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ARX | Floyd, Mitchell | 18 hr |
| May 14, 3:55 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 17 hr |
| May 14, 4:21 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 19 more | 16 hr |
| Sep 30, 2:47 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 16 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Floyd County1
- Mitchell County1
- Fremont County1
- Harrison County1
- Mills County1
- Monona County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Audubon County1
- Boone County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.