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Winter Storm Warnings in Iowa, 2024
13 winter storm warnings in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Warnings
- 13
- Busiest month
- January12 winter storm warnings
- Busiest day
- January 7, 20243 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 2:28 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 58 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:58 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Ida, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola and 3 more | 63 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:06 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 40 more | 55 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:34 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 45 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:43 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 48 hr |
| Jan 10, 2:40 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 3 days |
| Jan 10, 3:12 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 51 hr |
| Jan 11, 2:14 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 14 more | 39 hr |
| Jan 11, 2:25 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 46 hr |
| Jan 11, 3:28 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 31 hr |
| Jan 11, 9:37 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DVN | Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson | 30 hr |
| Jan 12, 10:56 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | ARX | Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Mitchell | 4 hr |
| Mar 22, 8:03 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | DVN | Dubuque, Jackson, Jones, Linn | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dubuque County4
- Jackson County4
- Chickasaw County3
- Clayton County3
- Fayette County3
- Floyd County3
- Mitchell County3
- Clinton County3
- Delaware County3
- Jones County3
- Linn County3
- Fremont County2
- Harrison County2
- Mills County2
- Monona County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Cherokee County2
- Ida County2
- Lyon County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Woodbury County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Appanoose County2
- Audubon County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Boone County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
59 more counties
- Clarke County2
- Crawford County2
- Dallas County2
- Davis County2
- Decatur County2
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
- Grundy County2
- Guthrie County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hancock County2
- Hardin County2
- Humboldt County2
- Jasper County2
- Lucas County2
- Madison County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Monroe County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Polk County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Ringgold County2
- Sac County2
- Story County2
- Tama County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Wapello County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Webster County2
- Wright County2
- Allamakee County2
- Howard County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Benton County2
- Buchanan County2
- Cedar County2
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Iowa County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Keokuk County2
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Van Buren County2
- Washington County2
- Lee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Emmet County1
- Kossuth County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.