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Wind Advisories in Iowa, 2018
36 wind advisories 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 wind advisories reaches back to 2005.
Wind Advisories by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Wind Advisories
- 36
- Busiest month
- October11 wind advisories
- Busiest day
- February 18, 20184 wind advisories
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 10:20 AM CST | Wind Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 5 hr |
| Jan 26, 10:53 AM CST | Wind Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Cass and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:53 AM CST | Wind Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 11 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:27 AM CST | Wind Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 35 more | 11 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:30 AM CST | Wind Advisory | ARX | Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 12 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:36 AM CST | Wind Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:58 PM CST | Wind Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 13 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:42 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 22 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:05 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 22 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:19 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | DMX | Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 29 more | 25 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:27 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | OAX | Monona | 22 hr |
| Mar 31, 6:13 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 10 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:42 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 28 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:19 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 23 more | 21 hr |
| Apr 13, 5:51 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more | 25 hr |
| Apr 14, 1:31 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Dallas, Grundy, Hardin and 6 more | 14 hr |
| Apr 14, 2:56 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ARX | Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd | 10 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:41 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | FSD | Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 16 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:52 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 39 hr |
| Apr 30, 3:18 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 25 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 30, 3:31 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 30, 3:35 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | ARX | Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell | 4 hr |
| Oct 3, 10:18 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 11 hr |
| Oct 3, 12:01 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | ARX | Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 13 hr |
| Oct 3, 12:07 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 13 hr |
| Oct 3, 12:09 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Oct 19, 7:30 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 19 hr |
| Oct 19, 7:30 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Davis, Franklin and 14 more | 20 hr |
| Oct 19, 7:36 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 20 hr |
| Oct 27, 1:09 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | FSD | Dickinson | 12 hr |
| Oct 27, 2:24 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin and 11 more | 23 hr |
| Oct 27, 2:31 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 26 hr |
| Oct 27, 2:46 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 22 hr |
| Dec 1, 6:56 AM CST | Wind Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Black Hawk, Cass, Clarke and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 1, 7:01 AM CST | Wind Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 4 hr |
| Dec 1, 7:28 AM CST | Wind Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 13 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Black Hawk County8
- Dallas County8
- Jasper County8
- Polk County8
- Poweshiek County8
- Fremont County7
- Mills County7
- Montgomery County7
- Page County7
- Marshall County7
- Tama County7
- Hardin County7
- Story County7
- Chickasaw County7
- Floyd County7
- Pottawattamie County6
- Adair County6
- Adams County6
- Cass County6
- Guthrie County6
- Madison County6
- Mahaska County6
- Taylor County6
- Union County6
- Warren County6
- Bremer County6
- Butler County6
- Cerro Gordo County6
- Franklin County6
- Grundy County6
- Hancock County6
- Winnebago County6
- Worth County6
- Wright County6
- Fayette County6
- Howard County6
- Mitchell County6
- Shelby County5
- Audubon County5
- Clarke County5
59 more counties
- Davis County5
- Decatur County5
- Marion County5
- Ringgold County5
- Wapello County5
- Dickinson County5
- Lyon County5
- O'Brien County5
- Osceola County5
- Plymouth County5
- Sioux County5
- Woodbury County5
- Boone County5
- Carroll County5
- Crawford County5
- Emmet County5
- Greene County5
- Hamilton County5
- Kossuth County5
- Palo Alto County5
- Winneshiek County5
- Benton County5
- Buchanan County5
- Cedar County5
- Clinton County5
- Delaware County5
- Dubuque County5
- Iowa County5
- Jackson County5
- Johnson County5
- Jones County5
- Linn County5
- Muscatine County5
- Scott County5
- Appanoose County4
- Lucas County4
- Monroe County4
- Wayne County4
- Buena Vista County4
- Cherokee County4
- Clay County4
- Ida County4
- Calhoun County4
- Humboldt County4
- Pocahontas County4
- Sac County4
- Webster County4
- Harrison County4
- Monona County4
- Clayton County4
- Keokuk County4
- Louisa County4
- Washington County4
- Allamakee County3
- Des Moines County3
- Henry County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lee County2
- Van Buren 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.