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Winter Storm Warnings in Iowa, 2023

20 winter storm warnings in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Warnings
20
Busiest month
February8 winter storm warnings
Busiest day
January 17, 20233 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 1, 2:10 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningFSDLyon61 hr
Jan 17, 7:35 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningOAXHarrison, Mills, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby46 hr
Jan 17, 3:09 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXAudubon, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 20 more45 hr
Jan 17, 3:11 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more42 hr
Jan 18, 3:18 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek34 hr
Jan 27, 3:08 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXButler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Grundy, Hamilton and 9 more42 hr
Jan 27, 3:12 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Ida, O'Brien, Plymouth and 2 more39 hr
Feb 8, 2:28 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXClayton26 hr
Feb 8, 2:45 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 3 more26 hr
Feb 15, 3:18 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Cedar, Clinton, Dubuque, Henry, Iowa and 10 more42 hr
Feb 15, 3:24 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie32 hr
Feb 15, 3:27 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis and 13 more39 hr
Feb 21, 2:47 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXCerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto and 4 more57 hr
Feb 21, 2:52 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, O'Brien, Plymouth and 1 more57 hr
Feb 21, 2:57 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek57 hr
Mar 8, 2:22 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more40 hr
Mar 8, 3:04 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Grundy and 4 more30 hr
Mar 8, 3:04 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 1 more37 hr
Mar 25, 2:32 AM CDTWinter Storm WarningDVNClinton, Jackson, Scott10 hr
Mar 31, 3:01 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningDMXHancock, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Winnebago, Worth16 hr

By county

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

53 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 17, 20233winter storm warnings
  2. February 15, 20233winter storm warnings
  3. February 21, 20233winter storm warnings
  4. March 8, 20233winter storm warnings
  5. January 27, 20232winter storm warnings
  6. February 8, 20232winter storm warnings
  7. January 1, 20231winter storm warnings
  8. January 18, 20231winter storm warnings
  9. March 25, 20231winter storm warnings
  10. March 31, 20231winter 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.