Alert archive / Iowa / Red Flag Warnings / 2024
Red Flag Warnings in Iowa, April 2024
10 red flag warnings in April 2024. 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 April 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 10
- Busiest day
- April 15, 20243 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2:27 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 31 hr |
| Apr 6, 2:03 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 6, 2:58 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cerro Gordo, Crawford and 9 more | 16 hr |
| Apr 10, 2:31 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Woodbury | 29 hr |
| Apr 10, 3:40 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 28 hr |
| Apr 13, 2:47 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth and 5 more | 16 hr |
| Apr 13, 4:10 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien and 2 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 15, 2:40 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Harrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 16 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:52 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford, Emmet, Humboldt, Kossuth and 3 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 15, 4:29 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 16 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Harrison County3
- Monona County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Shelby County3
- Buena Vista County3
- Cherokee County3
- Clay County3
- Dickinson County3
- Lyon County3
- O'Brien County3
- Osceola County3
- Plymouth County3
- Sioux County3
- Woodbury County3
- Emmet County3
- Humboldt County3
- Kossuth County3
- Palo Alto County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Fremont County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Ida County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Crawford County2
- Hancock County2
- Sac County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Audubon County1
- Cass County1
- Franklin County1
- Wright County1
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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.