Weather alerts in Alaska

109,098 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.

Weather alerts by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 109,098
Warnings: 46,826
Watches: 2,317
Advisories: 59,809
Busiest year: 20246,030 alerts
Average year: 4,196over 26 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	165
Special Weather Statement	137
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	320
Flash Flood Warning	51
Flash Flood Watch	15
Flood Watch	264
River Flood Watch	2
Areal Flood Advisory	928
Winter
Blizzard Warning	1,083
Heavy Snow Warning	61
Ice Storm Warning	14
Winter Storm Warning	1,030
Blizzard Watch	350
Winter Storm Watch	783
Blowing Snow Advisory	150
Freezing Rain Advisory	322
Snow Advisory	175
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	3,638
Heat
Heat Advisory	31
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	15
Freeze Warning	20
Hard Freeze Warning	1
Wind Chill Warning	142
Extreme Cold Watch	6
Freeze Watch	2
Wind Chill Watch	9
Cold Weather Advisory	68
Frost Advisory	120
Wind Chill Advisory	1,087
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	1,095
High Wind Watch	659
Blowing Dust Advisory	1
Wind Advisory	1,400
Fire
Red Flag Warning	514
Fire Weather Watch	159
Fog and smoke
Ashfall Advisory	25
Dense Fog Advisory	1,293
Dense Smoke Advisory	77
Freezing Fog Advisory	6
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	56
Tsunami Warning	13
Coastal Flood Watch	68
Coastal Flood Advisory	68
High Surf Advisory	259
Tsunami Advisory	13
Coastal Flood Statement	5
Lakeshore Flood Statement	1
Marine
Gale Warning	30,253
Heavy Freezing Spray Warning	5,587
Hurricane Force Wind Warning	336
Special Marine Warning	127
Storm Warning	5,943
Brisk Wind Advisory	6,818
Marine Dense Fog Advisory	3
Small Craft Advisory	43,322
Marine Weather Statement	3

By county

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

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 22, 1:27 PM AKDT	Storm Warning	AFC		13 hr
Sep 22, 1:27 PM AKDT	Gale Warning	AFC		13 hr
Sep 22, 1:26 PM AKDT	Storm Warning	AFC		15 hr
Sep 22, 1:26 PM AKDT	Gale Warning	AFC		15 hr
Sep 22, 1:03 PM AKDT	High Wind Warning	AFC	Aleutians West Census Area	57 hr
Sep 22, 11:39 AM AKDT	Gale Warning	AJK		25 hr
Sep 22, 4:21 AM AKDT	Gale Warning	AFC		22 hr
Sep 22, 4:20 AM AKDT	Gale Warning	AFC		24 hr
Sep 22, 3:45 AM AKDT	Gale Warning	AFG		14 hr
Sep 20, 3:58 PM AKDT	Special Marine Warning	AJK		32 min
Sep 20, 2:17 PM AKDT	Special Marine Warning	AJK		58 min
Sep 20, 12:59 PM AKDT	Special Marine Warning	AJK		52 min

Nearby

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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. Rebuilt daily.