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Red Flag Warnings in Iowa, 2015

27 red flag warnings in 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Red Flag Warnings
27
Busiest month
March15 red flag warnings
Busiest day
March 30, 20153 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 11, 3:54 PM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXMonona27 hr
Mar 12, 3:44 AM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD15 hr
Mar 12, 3:50 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDMXCalhoun, Carroll, Crawford, Emmet, Humboldt, Kossuth and 3 more14 hr
Mar 14, 2:47 PM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD28 hr
Mar 14, 3:08 PM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more29 hr
Mar 15, 3:41 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 29 more15 hr
Mar 16, 3:10 AM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more17 hr
Mar 16, 3:43 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 25 more15 hr
Mar 20, 3:30 AM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXMonona17 hr
Mar 29, 3:56 AM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more12 hr
Mar 29, 5:04 AM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD14 hr
Mar 30, 3:54 AM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more15 hr
Mar 30, 4:03 AM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD16 hr
Mar 30, 4:14 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 22 more15 hr
Mar 31, 2:21 PM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD30 hr
Apr 1, 3:42 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more15 hr
Apr 1, 3:46 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more15 hr
Apr 1, 4:26 AM CDTRed Flag WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more15 hr
Apr 3, 3:26 PM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXHarrison, Mills, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby29 hr
Apr 3, 3:39 PM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD28 hr
Apr 4, 3:57 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDMXCrawford, Sac16 hr
Oct 15, 3:45 AM CDTRed Flag WarningFSD15 hr
Oct 15, 5:34 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDMXCalhoun, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin, Hamilton, Hancock and 9 more13 hr
Oct 18, 2:02 PM CDTRed Flag WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more29 hr
Oct 18, 2:15 PM CDTRed Flag WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more29 hr
Oct 18, 2:56 PM CDTRed Flag WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more28 hr
Oct 19, 3:29 AM CDTRed Flag WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more12 hr

By county

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

48 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 30, 20153red flag warnings
  2. April 1, 20153red flag warnings
  3. October 18, 20153red flag warnings
  4. March 12, 20152red flag warnings
  5. March 14, 20152red flag warnings
  6. March 16, 20152red flag warnings
  7. March 29, 20152red flag warnings
  8. April 3, 20152red flag warnings
  9. October 15, 20152red flag warnings
  10. March 11, 20151red flag warnings
  11. March 15, 20151red flag warnings
  12. March 20, 20151red flag warnings

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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.