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Winter Storm Watches in Iowa, 2008

37 winter storm watches in 2008. 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 watches reaches back to 2005.

Winter Storm Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
37
Busiest month
December15 winter storm watches
Busiest day
February 4, 20084 winter storm watches

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 15, 2:34 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more25 hr
Jan 15, 3:00 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Delaware, Dubuque, Iowa and 8 more25 hr
Jan 15, 3:48 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 36 more19 hr
Jan 28, 1:17 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more14 hr
Feb 4, 3:55 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more24 hr
Feb 4, 4:04 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 27 more24 hr
Feb 4, 4:26 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXClayton, Fayette24 hr
Feb 4, 4:36 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie11 hr
Feb 15, 11:43 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXAllamakee, Clayton, Fayette28 hr
Feb 15, 1:33 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more27 hr
Feb 15, 2:55 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Black Hawk, Bremer, Cass and 23 more25 hr
Feb 15, 3:25 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchOAXFremont, Montgomery, Page25 hr
Feb 24, 3:55 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXChickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd24 hr
Feb 24, 4:28 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 13 more23 hr
Feb 24, 11:52 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXAdair, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler and 23 more12 hr
Mar 19, 2:44 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchDVNBuchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson13 hr
Mar 19, 3:23 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more24 hr
Mar 20, 4:03 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchDVNBenton, Cedar, Clinton, Jones, Linn9 hr
Mar 25, 3:27 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more24 hr
Mar 25, 3:50 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchDMXCerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Winnebago and 1 more24 hr
Mar 30, 4:38 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchFSDLyon, Osceola10 hr
Apr 9, 3:47 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchFSDLyon24 hr
Dec 7, 3:10 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more37 hr
Dec 7, 4:04 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 31 more36 hr
Dec 7, 4:13 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more25 hr
Dec 7, 3:48 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more21 hr
Dec 15, 4:02 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 13 more11 hr
Dec 15, 4:11 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Cass and 23 more11 hr
Dec 16, 3:51 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more36 hr
Dec 16, 8:43 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more19 hr
Dec 17, 3:31 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more24 hr
Dec 17, 3:34 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more25 hr
Dec 17, 3:50 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more17 hr
Dec 19, 12:09 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more15 hr
Dec 19, 3:12 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson and 2 more13 hr
Dec 19, 4:17 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXBlack Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 21 more12 hr
Dec 22, 3:42 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more32 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. February 4, 20084winter storm watches
  2. February 15, 20084winter storm watches
  3. December 7, 20084winter storm watches
  4. December 17, 20084winter storm watches
  5. January 15, 20083winter storm watches
  6. February 24, 20083winter storm watches
  7. December 19, 20083winter storm watches
  8. March 19, 20082winter storm watches
  9. March 25, 20082winter storm watches
  10. December 15, 20082winter storm watches
  11. January 28, 20081winter storm watches
  12. March 20, 20081winter storm watches

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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.