Weather alerts in Alaska, 2016
4,910 weather alerts in 2016, 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 in 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 4,910
- Warnings
- 2,096
- Watches
- 80
- Advisories
- 2,734
- Busiest month
- January650 alerts
- Busiest day
- December 3, 201633 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
4,910 alerts are too many to list on one page. Narrow it to a product above, to a month in the chart, or to a county.
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 | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 7 |
| Flood Watch | 11 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 48 |
| Winter | |
| Blizzard Warning | 26 |
| Ice Storm Warning | 1 |
| Winter Storm Warning | 30 |
| Blizzard Watch | 12 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 22 |
| Freezing Rain Advisory | 24 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 121 |
| Cold | |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 13 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 41 |
| High Wind Watch | 27 |
| Wind Advisory | 52 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 12 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 5 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Ashfall Advisory | 1 |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 37 |
| Dense Smoke Advisory | 1 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Warning | 2 |
| Coastal Flood Watch | 3 |
| High Surf Advisory | 6 |
| Marine | |
| Gale Warning | 1,420 |
| Heavy Freezing Spray Warning | 226 |
| Hurricane Force Wind Warning | 21 |
| Special Marine Warning | 1 |
| Storm Warning | 305 |
| Brisk Wind Advisory | 277 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 2,154 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.