Weather alerts in Lake County, Indiana

3,808 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Lake County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,808
Warnings: 1,074
Watches: 610
Advisories: 986
Busiest year: 2026243 alerts
Average year: 93over 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.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	495
Tornado Warning	72
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	262
Tornado Watch	84
Mesoscale Discussion	649
Special Weather Statement	216
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	50
Flash Flood Warning	126
River Flood Warning	148
Flash Flood Watch	61
Flood Watch	48
River Flood Watch	41
Areal Flood Advisory	237
River Flood Advisory	46
Winter
Blizzard Warning	4
Heavy Snow Warning	3
Ice Storm Warning	3
Lake Effect Snow Warning	9
Snow Squall Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	49
Blizzard Watch	4
Lake Effect Snow Watch	5
Winter Storm Watch	51
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	15
Lake Effect Snow Advisory	11
Snow Advisory	11
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Winter Weather Advisory	143
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	6
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Excessive Heat Watch	7
Heat Advisory	42
Cold
Freeze Warning	29
Wind Chill Warning	8
Freeze Watch	9
Wind Chill Watch	4
Cold Weather Advisory	6
Frost Advisory	50
Wind Chill Advisory	39
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	2
High Wind Warning	19
High Wind Watch	12
Blowing Dust Advisory	1
Wind Advisory	151
Fire
Red Flag Warning	26
Fire Weather Watch	13
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	177
Freezing Fog Advisory	7
Coast and beach
Lakeshore Flood Warning	21
Lakeshore Flood Watch	9
Lakeshore Flood Advisory	47
Beach Hazards Statement	200
Lakeshore Flood Statement	28
Rip Current Statement	45

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 19, 9:05 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LOT	17 hr
Aug 14, 8:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LOT	4 days
Aug 12, 10:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOT	111 min
Aug 12, 10:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	61 min
Aug 11, 1:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LOT	3 hr
Aug 11, 11:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOT	2 hr
Aug 11, 11:24 AM CDT	Lakeshore Flood Warning	LOT	6 hr
Aug 11, 10:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	46 min
Aug 11, 10:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LOT	56 min
Aug 11, 10:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	33 min
Aug 11, 9:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	60 min
Aug 9, 5:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOT	84 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.