Wind Advisories in Iowa, 2026

25 wind advisories in 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.

Wind Advisories: 25
Busiest month: January6 wind advisories
Busiest day: March 12, 20265 wind advisories

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
Jan 15, 2:11 PM CST	Wind Advisory	OAX	Monona	28 hr
Jan 17, 1:16 PM CST	Wind Advisory	OAX	Harrison, Mills, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby	33 hr
Jan 20, 1:23 PM CST	Wind Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Ida, Lyon, O'Brien and 3 more	21 hr
Jan 20, 2:13 PM CST	Wind Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more	28 hr
Jan 21, 2:29 AM CST	Wind Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun and 27 more	12 hr
Jan 21, 2:46 AM CST	Wind Advisory	DVN	Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson and 8 more	21 hr
Feb 17, 2:43 AM CST	Wind Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	36 hr
Feb 17, 2:31 PM CST	Wind Advisory	DMX	Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 21 more	27 hr
Feb 17, 3:05 PM CST	Wind Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	27 hr
Feb 17, 8:04 PM CST	Wind Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more	22 hr
Feb 19, 7:11 PM CST	Wind Advisory	DVN	Clinton, Jackson, Scott	15 hr
Mar 11, 9:15 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	40 hr
Mar 12, 2:34 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more	33 hr
Mar 12, 10:04 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler and 27 more	26 hr
Mar 12, 10:37 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more	8 hr
Mar 12, 10:37 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie	17 hr
Apr 2, 2:50 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	DVN	Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine and 2 more	16 hr
Apr 8, 1:35 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ARX	Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek	15 hr
Apr 8, 1:56 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	DMX	Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun and 35 more	16 hr
Apr 12, 1:58 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ARX	Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell	4 hr
May 12, 3:46 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ARX	Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more	4 hr
Jun 16, 11:29 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	OAX	Fremont, Page	24 hr
Jun 16, 11:29 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	OAX	Monona	31 hr
Jun 16, 12:40 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more	31 hr
Jun 17, 12:19 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	DMX	Appanoose, Calhoun, Crawford, Davis, Decatur, Emmet and 6 more	20 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

59 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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.