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Red Flag Warnings in Iowa, 2018
6 red flag warnings in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 6
- Busiest month
- April5 red flag warnings
- Busiest day
- April 29, 20183 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, 10:42 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Page | 8 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:42 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 38 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:50 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:26 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 19 more | 18 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:37 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:58 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 4 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Black Hawk County2
- Boone County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Crawford County2
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
- Grundy County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Humboldt County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Sac County2
- Story County2
- Webster County2
- Wright County2
- Fremont County1
- Page County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Audubon County1
- Cass County1
- Clarke County1
- Dallas County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Guthrie County1
- Jasper County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold County1
52 more counties
- Tama County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne 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
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Emmet County1
- Hancock County1
- Kossuth County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Allamakee County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury 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.