Alert archive / Iowa / Red Flag Warnings / 2023
Red Flag Warnings in Iowa, May 2023
3 red flag warnings in May 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 May 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20233 red flag warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- Floyd County1
- Mitchell County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Emmet County1
- Franklin County1
- Hancock County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.