Institution
University of Iowa
IowaIAPublic R1Hawk Alert~31,000 students
- Cases
- 20
- Alerts
- 47
- Verbatim
- 45%
- Span
- 1991–2026
Official alert policy
How Iowa says it will alert — when and how Hawk Alert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.
Case log
Every documented incident
20 cases · 21 of 47 alert messages verbatim-confirmed
2026
- evacuation: 2026-04-28An Unnamed 'Unknown Problem' Clears Out Slater Residence Hall on a Tuesday Afternoonemergency notification
- shooting: 2026-04-19Five Shot, Three Iowa Students Among Them: A Bar-District Brawl Triggers a 1:51 AM Hawk Alert on the Ped Mallemergency notification5 injuredverbatim
- sexual assault: 2026-04-03Iowa's First Crime Alert of the Spring Semester Reported a Sexual Assault by an Acquaintance in a West Side Residence Halltimely warningverbatim
- gas leak: 2026-03-30A Backhoe Strikes a Gas Line and Empties the Levitt Centeremergency notification
2025
- shooting: 2025-11-07Hawk Alert Tracks a Fleeing Shooter: Three Rapid-Fire Notifications Guide Campus Through Off-Campus Gunfire at Burlington and Governoremergency notificationverbatim
- fire: 2025-11-06A 3:30 AM Sprinkler Save in Daum Hall: A Burned-Out Room and Two Floors of Water Damageemergency notification
- swatting: 2025-09-11No Hawk Alert Sent: Iowa Police Defuse Swatting Email Without Activating Campus-Wide Emergency Systemadvisoryverbatim
- winter storm: 2025-01-15Frostbite in Less Than 10 Minutes: Iowa's Hawk Alert Cancels In-Person Classes for -35 Wind Chillsemergency notificationverbatim
2024
- tornado: 2024-06-25Second Hawk Alert in 70 Days: A 7:12 PM Storm Near West Branch Pushed Iowa Into Another Tornado-Warning Shelter Orderemergency notificationverbatim
- tornado: 2024-04-16A Tornado Over Campus at 4:17 PM: Hawk Alert's One-Sentence Tornado Warning Is the National Weather Service Polygon, Verbatimemergency notificationverbatim
- armed person: 2024-04-04Hawk Alert Fires for Knife-Wielding Man Near Van Allen Hall: Campus on Edge During Morning Classesemergency notificationverbatim
- armed person: 2024-04-04Man Making Knife Threats Near Van Allen Hall Prompts 11-Minute Hawk Alert Responseemergency notificationverbatim
By incident type