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Winter Storm Watches in Iowa, 2018

40 winter storm watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
40
Busiest month
April14 winter storm watches
Busiest day
January 9, 20184 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 9, 2:48 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Pottawattamie and 1 more35 hr
Jan 9, 3:46 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more35 hr
Jan 9, 3:57 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXAudubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cerro Gordo and 16 more34 hr
Jan 9, 3:25 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXMitchell23 hr
Jan 19, 3:49 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchOAXMonona48 hr
Jan 19, 4:20 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more47 hr
Jan 19, 3:08 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXCalhoun, Crawford, Emmet, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth and 5 more38 hr
Feb 7, 1:54 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more13 hr
Feb 18, 3:45 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Clarke and 17 more24 hr
Feb 18, 3:48 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Howard, Winneshiek22 hr
Feb 18, 2:45 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Delaware13 hr
Feb 22, 2:54 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchOAXMonona23 hr
Feb 22, 3:17 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXMitchell23 hr
Feb 22, 3:56 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more23 hr
Feb 22, 4:00 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXCalhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Crawford, Emmet, Hancock and 9 more23 hr
Mar 3, 2:18 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXAllamakee, Howard, Winneshiek25 hr
Mar 22, 3:23 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more24 hr
Mar 22, 3:45 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 6 more24 hr
Mar 22, 3:48 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Grundy and 4 more24 hr
Apr 1, 2:53 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchARXChickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek20 hr
Apr 2, 3:45 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchFSDClay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux11 hr
Apr 2, 4:16 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchDMXCerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Winnebago and 1 more10 hr
Apr 6, 3:28 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchFSDDickinson23 hr
Apr 7, 3:31 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchDMXCerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Winnebago and 1 more12 hr
Apr 11, 3:30 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchOAXMonona48 hr
Apr 11, 3:37 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchFSDClay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth and 1 more24 hr
Apr 12, 3:49 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchDMXCalhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Crawford, Emmet, Hancock and 9 more36 hr
Apr 12, 3:37 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek24 hr
Apr 12, 3:45 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Ida, Woodbury24 hr
Apr 16, 3:11 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchARXAllamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more36 hr
Apr 16, 3:21 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien and 4 more24 hr
Apr 16, 3:42 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchDMXButler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin, Hancock, Humboldt and 6 more24 hr
Apr 17, 4:07 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchDVNBuchanan, Delaware, Dubuque11 hr
Nov 23, 3:15 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchOAXFremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more24 hr
Nov 23, 3:29 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDVNBenton, Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa and 12 more24 hr
Nov 23, 3:30 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Cass and 22 more24 hr
Nov 28, 2:20 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchOAXMonona49 hr
Nov 28, 2:25 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more48 hr
Nov 29, 3:43 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMXBremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Crawford and 15 more36 hr
Nov 29, 4:04 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXChickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek35 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. January 9, 20184winter storm watches
  2. February 22, 20184winter storm watches
  3. January 19, 20183winter storm watches
  4. February 18, 20183winter storm watches
  5. March 22, 20183winter storm watches
  6. April 12, 20183winter storm watches
  7. April 16, 20183winter storm watches
  8. November 23, 20183winter storm watches
  9. April 2, 20182winter storm watches
  10. April 11, 20182winter storm watches
  11. November 28, 20182winter storm watches
  12. November 29, 20182winter 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.