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Winter Storm Warnings in Iowa, 2013

27 winter storm warnings in 2013. 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 winter storm warnings reaches back to 2005.

Winter Storm Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Warnings
27
Busiest month
February7 winter storm warnings
Busiest day
January 29, 20133 winter storm warnings

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 26, 3:01 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Grundy and 5 more33 hr
Jan 26, 3:19 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more31 hr
Jan 29, 12:01 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 24 more24 hr
Jan 29, 1:29 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 1 more28 hr
Jan 29, 3:18 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 10 more27 hr
Feb 19, 4:09 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more60 hr
Feb 20, 3:44 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more56 hr
Feb 20, 1:46 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXChickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell and 1 more49 hr
Feb 20, 3:17 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque and 12 more48 hr
Feb 21, 7:24 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Ida, Plymouth, Woodbury14 hr
Feb 25, 3:22 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa and 12 more42 hr
Feb 25, 4:15 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Black Hawk, Boone, Clarke and 22 more44 hr
Mar 3, 12:30 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more54 hr
Mar 3, 3:18 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin and 11 more44 hr
Mar 4, 4:13 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 6 more38 hr
Mar 9, 3:39 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningOAXHarrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby46 hr
Mar 10, 4:08 AM CDTWinter Storm WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more32 hr
Mar 10, 4:21 AM CDTWinter Storm WarningDMXAudubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun and 25 more29 hr
Mar 10, 2:32 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Ida, Woodbury11 hr
Apr 8, 4:59 AM CDTWinter Storm WarningFSDClay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth and 1 more3 days
Apr 9, 4:28 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningDMXEmmet, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Winnebago40 hr
Apr 17, 3:42 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningFSDLyon24 hr
Apr 18, 3:59 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningFSDLyon9 hr
Dec 20, 2:46 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXClayton, Fayette45 hr
Dec 20, 2:57 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXAdams, Appanoose, Black Hawk, Bremer, Clarke, Davis and 19 more44 hr
Dec 20, 3:02 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more44 hr
Dec 21, 4:05 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningOAXPage26 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.

  1. January 29, 20133winter storm warnings
  2. February 20, 20133winter storm warnings
  3. March 10, 20133winter storm warnings
  4. December 20, 20133winter storm warnings
  5. January 26, 20132winter storm warnings
  6. February 25, 20132winter storm warnings
  7. March 3, 20132winter storm warnings
  8. February 19, 20131winter storm warnings
  9. February 22, 20131winter storm warnings
  10. March 4, 20131winter storm warnings
  11. March 9, 20131winter storm warnings
  12. April 8, 20131winter storm warnings

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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.