Weather alerts in Polk County, Florida
4,142 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Polk County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 4,142
- Warnings
- 1,324
- Watches
- 582
- Advisories
- 763
- Busiest year
- 2010318 alerts
- Average year
- 101over 41 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.
The latest warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 16 min |
| Aug 26, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 27 min |
| Aug 20, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 33 min |
| Jul 25, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 32 min |
| Jul 12, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 37 min |
| Jul 12, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 32 min |
| Jul 10, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 30 min |
| Jul 10, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 38 min |
| Jun 26, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 18 min |
| May 24, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 18 min |
| Apr 20, 1:56 PM EDT | Red Flag Warning | TBW | 30 hr |
| Feb 22, 11:58 PM EST | Freeze Warning | TBW | 33 hr |
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.