Weather alerts in Benton County, Indiana

2,678 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Benton County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,678
Warnings: 503
Watches: 562
Advisories: 660
Busiest year: 2010158 alerts
Average year: 67over 40 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	275
Tornado Warning	22
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	282
Tornado Watch	109
Mesoscale Discussion	754
Special Weather Statement	199
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	30
Flash Flood Warning	57
Flash Flood Watch	49
Flood Watch	45
Areal Flood Advisory	81
Winter
Blizzard Warning	3
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	3
Snow Squall Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	27
Blizzard Watch	3
Winter Storm Watch	29
Blowing Snow Advisory	3
Freezing Rain Advisory	16
Snow Advisory	9
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Winter Weather Advisory	111
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	8
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Excessive Heat Watch	8
Heat Advisory	51
Cold
Freeze Warning	27
Wind Chill Warning	7
Freeze Watch	11
Wind Chill Watch	4
Cold Weather Advisory	7
Frost Advisory	46
Wind Chill Advisory	40
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	1
High Wind Warning	14
High Wind Watch	8
Blowing Dust Advisory	3
Dust Storm Advisory	1
Wind Advisory	137
Fire
Red Flag Warning	26
Fire Weather Watch	14
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	147
Freezing Fog Advisory	6

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 14, 1:48 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOT	3 hr
Aug 11, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	45 min
Aug 11, 12:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LOT	65 min
Aug 10, 2:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	93 min
Aug 1, 6:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	LOT	7 hr
Jul 27, 8:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	27 min
Jul 27, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LOT	76 min
Jul 27, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	45 min
Jun 28, 12:18 PM EDT	Extreme Heat Warning	LOT	5 days
Jun 16, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	34 min
Jun 11, 8:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	65 min
Jun 6, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	26 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.