Alert archive / Iowa / Red Flag Warnings
Red Flag Warnings in Iowa, 2017
7 red flag warnings in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 7
- Busiest month
- March7 red flag warnings
- Busiest day
- March 7, 20173 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 5, 3:40 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 28 hr |
| Mar 5, 4:09 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 27 hr |
| Mar 6, 4:32 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 25 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:32 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 14 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:45 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 14 hr |
| Mar 7, 4:00 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 14 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:21 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fremont County2
- Harrison County2
- Mills County2
- Monona County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Woodbury County2
- Benton County2
- Buchanan County2
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Delaware County2
- Des Moines County2
- Dubuque County2
- Henry County2
- Iowa County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Jones County2
- Keokuk County2
- Lee County2
- Linn County2
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Van Buren County2
- Washington County2
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
51 more counties
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Audubon County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Clarke County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Jasper County1
- Kossuth County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold County1
- Sac County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.