Weather alerts in Clay County, Iowa

3,255 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Clay County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,255
Warnings: 1,025
Watches: 579
Advisories: 893
Busiest year: 2010214 alerts
Average year: 83over 39 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	431
Tornado Warning	51
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	253
Tornado Watch	120
Mesoscale Discussion	756
Special Weather Statement	2
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	19
Flash Flood Warning	53
River Flood Warning	258
Flash Flood Watch	54
Flood Watch	21
River Flood Watch	8
Winter
Blizzard Warning	29
Heavy Snow Warning	2
Ice Storm Warning	5
Winter Storm Warning	40
Blizzard Watch	11
Winter Storm Watch	62
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	8
Snow Advisory	18
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	205
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	11
Extreme Heat Warning	5
Excessive Heat Watch	6
Extreme Heat Watch	2
Heat Advisory	61
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	3
Freeze Warning	27
Wind Chill Warning	21
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	5
Wind Chill Watch	4
Cold Weather Advisory	13
Frost Advisory	38
Wind Chill Advisory	124
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	22
High Wind Watch	8
Wind Advisory	236
Fire
Red Flag Warning	48
Fire Weather Watch	23
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	2
Dense Fog Advisory	184
Freezing Fog Advisory	2

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 9, 3:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	56 min
Aug 9, 2:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	38 min
Jul 25, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	37 min
Jul 25, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	41 min
Jul 24, 11:24 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	FSD	46 hr
Jun 30, 2:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	54 min
Jun 29, 12:42 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	FSD	20 hr
Jun 28, 7:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	17 min
Jun 28, 6:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	45 min
Jun 28, 5:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	62 min
Jun 17, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	51 min
May 18, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	42 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.