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Winter Storm Warnings in Iowa, 2025

19 winter storm warnings in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Warnings
19
Busiest month
December7 winter storm warnings
Busiest day
November 27, 20255 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 3, 2:33 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningOAXFremont, Page47 hr
Jan 4, 2:16 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNLee, Van Buren48 hr
Jan 4, 2:56 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXAppanoose, Davis, Decatur, Ringgold, Taylor, Wayne34 hr
Feb 10, 2:18 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie52 hr
Feb 11, 2:50 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 26 more42 hr
Feb 11, 2:56 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more47 hr
Feb 11, 1:14 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXClayton35 hr
Nov 27, 2:07 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningOAXHarrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby48 hr
Nov 27, 2:09 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more60 hr
Nov 27, 2:19 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 44 more60 hr
Nov 27, 2:31 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more63 hr
Nov 27, 2:53 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more57 hr
Dec 5, 1:47 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo and 17 more37 hr
Dec 6, 2:29 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXChickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Mitchell25 hr
Dec 6, 3:08 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien and 2 more21 hr
Dec 6, 1:49 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Clinton, Jackson, Jones, Linn16 hr
Dec 18, 3:59 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Grundy, Hamilton, Hardin, Marshall, Tama and 1 more5 hr
Dec 18, 4:06 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more6 hr
Dec 27, 2:17 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningARXAllamakee, Winneshiek40 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. November 27, 20255winter storm warnings
  2. February 11, 20253winter storm warnings
  3. December 6, 20253winter storm warnings
  4. January 4, 20252winter storm warnings
  5. December 18, 20252winter storm warnings
  6. January 3, 20251winter storm warnings
  7. February 10, 20251winter storm warnings
  8. December 5, 20251winter storm warnings
  9. December 27, 20251winter 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.