Alert archive / Iowa / Wind Advisories / 2026
Wind Advisories in Iowa, January 2026
6 wind advisories in January 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 January 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Wind Advisories
- 6
- Busiest day
- January 20, 20262 wind advisories
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Monona County3
- Harrison County2
- Mills County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
- Fremont County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Audubon County1
- Boone County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Clarke County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Jasper County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Polk County1
24 more counties
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold County1
- Sac County1
- Story County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Webster County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington County1
Nearby
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.