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Winter Storm Warnings in Iowa, 2022

10 winter storm warnings in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Warnings
10
Busiest month
December5 winter storm warnings
Busiest day
January 13, 20224 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 13, 3:10 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 3 more48 hr
Jan 13, 2:40 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXChickasaw, Floyd, Mitchell36 hr
Jan 13, 2:47 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson and 7 more44 hr
Jan 13, 2:59 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXAdair, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 41 more42 hr
Feb 16, 3:30 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNLee39 hr
Dec 8, 3:44 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXCerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Winnebago and 1 more14 hr
Dec 20, 1:58 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more40 hr
Dec 20, 2:34 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more4 days
Dec 20, 2:48 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more4 days
Dec 20, 3:06 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more72 hr

By county

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

57 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.