Weather alerts in Custer County, Colorado

2,736 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Custer County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,736
Warnings: 1,033
Watches: 649
Advisories: 542
Busiest year: 2026187 alerts
Average year: 78over 35 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	215
Tornado Warning	10
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	39
Tornado Watch	1
Mesoscale Discussion	163
Special Weather Statement	349
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	3
Flash Flood Warning	153
Flash Flood Watch	111
Flood Watch	17
Areal Flood Advisory	87
Winter
Blizzard Warning	3
Heavy Snow Warning	5
Snow Squall Warning	5
Winter Storm Warning	149
Blizzard Watch	1
Winter Storm Watch	130
Freezing Rain Advisory	1
Snow Advisory	23
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	25
Winter Weather Advisory	312
Heat
Heat Advisory	33
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	55
Hard Freeze Warning	1
Wind Chill Warning	2
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	32
Hard Freeze Watch	1
Wind Chill Watch	1
Cold Weather Advisory	1
Frost Advisory	21
Wind Chill Advisory	17
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	1
High Wind Warning	114
High Wind Watch	78
Blowing Dust Advisory	5
Dust Storm Advisory	1
Fire
Red Flag Warning	316
Fire Weather Watch	237
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	11
Freezing Fog Advisory	5

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 9, 10:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	36 min
Aug 27, 3:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PUB	14 min
Aug 27, 3:23 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	3 hr
Aug 26, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	45 min
Aug 26, 3:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	50 min
Aug 25, 4:40 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	3 hr
Aug 25, 4:30 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	3 hr
Aug 24, 5:33 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	112 min
Aug 23, 3:25 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	3 hr
Aug 23, 3:25 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	3 hr
Aug 19, 6:42 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	92 min
Aug 19, 6:42 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	93 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.