Alert archive / Iowa / Red Flag Warnings
Red Flag Warnings in Iowa, 2014
15 red flag warnings in 2014. 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 15
- Busiest month
- April10 red flag warnings
- Busiest day
- April 9, 20143 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2:34 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Pottawattamie | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 3:30 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 26 hr |
| Mar 21, 12:32 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 7 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:20 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 17 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:34 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 12 hr |
| Apr 8, 2:34 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 28 hr | |
| Apr 8, 3:31 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 27 hr |
| Apr 9, 2:30 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 9, 3:27 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 16 hr |
| Apr 9, 3:56 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:05 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 14 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:13 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 25 more | 14 hr |
| Apr 21, 2:46 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 16 hr | |
| Apr 21, 3:43 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Monona | 15 hr |
| Apr 25, 9:09 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 10 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fremont County8
- Mills County8
- Montgomery County7
- Page County7
- Pottawattamie County6
- Harrison County4
- Shelby County3
- Monona County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Appanoose County2
- Audubon County2
- Boone County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Clarke County2
- Crawford County2
- Dallas County2
- Davis County2
- Decatur County2
- Greene County2
- Guthrie County2
- Jasper County2
- Lucas County2
- Madison County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Monroe County2
- Polk County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Ringgold County2
- Story County2
- Tama County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Wapello County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Allamakee County1
48 more counties
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Delaware County1
- Des Moines County1
- Dubuque County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Linn County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin 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.