Alert archive / Iowa / Red Flag Warnings
Red Flag Warnings in Iowa, 2023
23 red flag warnings in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 23
- Busiest month
- April20 red flag warnings
- Busiest day
- April 12, 20237 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 1:27 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 31 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:02 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Adams, Cass, Taylor | 15 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:09 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Monona | 29 hr |
| Apr 7, 12:30 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Ida, O'Brien, Plymouth and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:31 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 29 hr |
| Apr 8, 2:41 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Crawford, Emmet and 11 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:46 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 16 hr |
| Apr 10, 11:45 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Monona | 33 hr |
| Apr 10, 1:44 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 31 hr |
| Apr 11, 3:03 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 29 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:19 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 28 hr |
| Apr 12, 2:43 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 12, 2:48 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 12, 2:57 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 12, 2:20 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 30 hr |
| Apr 12, 2:26 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 30 hr |
| Apr 12, 2:27 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 30 hr |
| Apr 12, 3:16 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 29 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:46 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 18 hr |
| Apr 15, 2:39 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Monona | 29 hr |
| May 2, 2:26 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ARX | Floyd, Mitchell | 18 hr |
| May 2, 2:45 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth and 5 more | 17 hr |
| May 2, 3:37 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien and 3 more | 16 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Monona County6
- Buena Vista County6
- Cherokee County6
- Clay County6
- O'Brien County6
- Plymouth County6
- Sioux County6
- Ida County5
- Woodbury County5
- Dickinson County5
- Lyon County5
- Osceola County5
- Fremont County4
- Mills County4
- Montgomery County4
- Page County4
- Pottawattamie County4
- Cass County4
- Emmet County4
- Hancock County4
- Humboldt County4
- Kossuth County4
- Palo Alto County4
- Pocahontas County4
- Wright County4
- Adams County3
- Taylor County3
- Harrison County3
- Shelby County3
- Audubon County3
- Calhoun County3
- Carroll County3
- Crawford County3
- Greene County3
- Guthrie County3
- Hamilton County3
- Sac County3
- Webster County3
- Floyd County3
- Mitchell County3
59 more counties
- Cerro Gordo County3
- Franklin County3
- Winnebago County3
- Worth County3
- Allamakee County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Clayton County2
- Fayette County2
- Howard County2
- Winneshiek 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
- Adair County2
- Appanoose County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Boone County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Clarke County2
- Dallas County2
- Davis County2
- Decatur County2
- Grundy County2
- Hardin 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
- Union County2
- Wapello County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
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.