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Winter Storm Watches in Iowa, 2011

19 winter storm watches in 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
19
Busiest month
January8 winter storm watches
Busiest day
January 30, 20113 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 8, 3:13 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 19 more24 hr
Jan 18, 11:47 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchOAXHarrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby319 days
Jan 21, 3:24 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more13 hr
Jan 29, 4:07 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXCerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto and 4 more12 hr
Jan 30, 3:40 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more37 hr
Jan 30, 4:00 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more13 hr
Jan 30, 4:01 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 28 more36 hr
Jan 31, 3:49 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXAllamakee, Clayton, Fayette25 hr
Feb 18, 4:18 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDClay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux35 hr
Feb 18, 2:58 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more13 hr
Feb 18, 3:48 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXCerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Winnebago and 1 more25 hr
Mar 6, 3:58 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchOAXMonona36 hr
Mar 7, 3:53 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek32 hr
Mar 8, 4:15 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 34 more11 hr
Apr 18, 3:52 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchARXAllamakee, Howard, Winneshiek18 hr
Nov 7, 3:09 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXButler, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin and 6 more13 hr
Nov 7, 3:35 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXChickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek23 hr
Dec 2, 3:49 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXAudubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Crawford, Emmet and 13 more24 hr
Dec 2, 4:00 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXFloyd, Howard, Mitchell24 hr

By county

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

54 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 30, 20113winter storm watches
  2. February 18, 20113winter storm watches
  3. November 7, 20112winter storm watches
  4. December 2, 20112winter storm watches
  5. January 8, 20111winter storm watches
  6. January 18, 20111winter storm watches
  7. January 21, 20111winter storm watches
  8. January 29, 20111winter storm watches
  9. January 31, 20111winter storm watches
  10. March 6, 20111winter storm watches
  11. March 7, 20111winter storm watches
  12. March 8, 20111winter 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.