Weather alerts in Washington County, Iowa

3,411 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Washington County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 3,411
Warnings: 901
Watches: 683
Advisories: 720
Busiest year: 2008235 alerts
Average year: 85over 40 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	396
Tornado Warning	62
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	293
Tornado Watch	131
Mesoscale Discussion	772
Special Weather Statement	335
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	16
Flash Flood Warning	78
River Flood Warning	174
Flash Flood Watch	106
Flood Watch	33
River Flood Watch	20
River Flood Advisory	6
Winter
Blizzard Warning	10
Ice Storm Warning	10
Snow Squall Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	44
Blizzard Watch	3
Winter Storm Watch	55
Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Freezing Rain Advisory	8
Snow Advisory	10
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	4
Winter Weather Advisory	155
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	16
Extreme Heat Warning	4
Excessive Heat Watch	9
Extreme Heat Watch	4
Heat Advisory	95
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	45
Wind Chill Warning	11
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	10
Wind Chill Watch	4
Cold Weather Advisory	10
Frost Advisory	35
Wind Chill Advisory	78
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	8
High Wind Watch	6
Wind Advisory	113
Fire
Red Flag Warning	22
Fire Weather Watch	7
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	1
Dense Fog Advisory	198
Freezing Fog Advisory	2

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 20, 8:04 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	DVN	6 hr
Sep 20, 5:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	4 days
Sep 20, 5:17 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	4 days
Sep 20, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	57 min
Sep 20, 12:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	8 hr
Sep 8, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	57 min
Sep 2, 2:02 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DVN	4 days
Aug 14, 3:24 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	3 days
Aug 14, 5:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	5 hr
Aug 13, 9:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	54 min
Aug 13, 9:10 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	50 min
Aug 7, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DVN	67 min

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.