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Winter Storm Warnings in Iowa, 2018

33 winter storm warnings 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 winter storm warnings reaches back to 2005.

Winter Storm Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Warnings
33
Busiest month
April11 winter storm warnings
Busiest day
March 23, 20184 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 10, 2:06 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningOAXHarrison, Mills, Pottawattamie, Shelby7 hr
Jan 10, 2:07 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXMitchell14 hr
Jan 10, 2:08 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXAdair, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 18 more24 hr
Jan 20, 2:54 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningFSDClay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth and 1 more54 hr
Jan 20, 2:56 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXEmmet, Kossuth, Palo Alto14 hr
Jan 21, 4:47 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXCalhoun, Hancock, Humboldt, Worth43 hr
Jan 21, 9:50 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningOAXHarrison20 hr
Feb 8, 2:59 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more30 hr
Feb 8, 11:05 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 14 more19 hr
Feb 8, 11:19 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXClayton, Fayette19 hr
Mar 4, 3:15 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXAllamakee, Howard, Winneshiek36 hr
Mar 23, 3:30 AM CDTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more40 hr
Mar 23, 3:31 AM CDTWinter Storm WarningFSDDickinson33 hr
Mar 23, 3:50 AM CDTWinter Storm WarningARXChickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell and 1 more36 hr
Mar 23, 4:00 AM CDTWinter Storm WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin and 16 more39 hr
Mar 23, 9:27 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 4 more22 hr
Apr 2, 11:09 AM CDTWinter Storm WarningARXFloyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek41 hr
Apr 2, 2:00 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningDMXCerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Winnebago and 1 more35 hr
Apr 3, 3:21 AM CDTWinter Storm WarningFSDDickinson, Osceola18 hr
Apr 8, 3:48 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningDMXCerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Winnebago and 1 more12 hr
Apr 13, 3:19 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningOAXMonona23 hr
Apr 13, 3:54 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningDMXCerro Gordo, Hancock, Winnebago, Worth20 hr
Apr 13, 4:04 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningARXFloyd, Howard, Mitchell54 hr
Apr 17, 3:35 AM CDTWinter Storm WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more44 hr
Apr 17, 3:54 AM CDTWinter Storm WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Emmet and 14 more38 hr
Apr 17, 3:02 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 1 more34 hr
Apr 18, 2:59 AM CDTWinter Storm WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, O'Brien, Osceola15 hr
Nov 24, 3:39 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningOAXPage10 hr
Nov 24, 3:40 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXAppanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Jasper, Lucas and 11 more11 hr
Nov 24, 3:52 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNCedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jackson and 11 more44 hr
Nov 29, 2:45 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more69 hr
Nov 29, 3:09 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningOAXHarrison, Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Shelby3 days
Nov 30, 3:18 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXAudubon, Carroll, Cass, Cerro Gordo, Crawford, Emmet and 7 more45 hr

By county

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

56 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 23, 20184winter storm warnings
  2. January 10, 20183winter storm warnings
  3. February 8, 20183winter storm warnings
  4. April 13, 20183winter storm warnings
  5. April 17, 20183winter storm warnings
  6. November 24, 20183winter storm warnings
  7. January 20, 20182winter storm warnings
  8. April 2, 20182winter storm warnings
  9. November 29, 20182winter storm warnings
  10. January 21, 20181winter storm warnings
  11. January 22, 20181winter storm warnings
  12. March 4, 20181winter storm warnings

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.