Weather alerts in Hardin County, Iowa

3,090 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Hardin County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,090
Warnings: 770
Watches: 647
Advisories: 819
Busiest year: 2008227 alerts
Average year: 77over 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	401
Tornado Warning	69
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	298
Tornado Watch	135
Mesoscale Discussion	780
Special Weather Statement	74
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	37
Flash Flood Warning	51
Flash Flood Watch	73
Flood Watch	25
Areal Flood Advisory	6
Winter
Blizzard Warning	23
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	4
Snow Squall Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	62
Blizzard Watch	9
Winter Storm Watch	62
Blowing Snow Advisory	9
Freezing Rain Advisory	6
Snow Advisory	12
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	198
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	7
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	8
Extreme Heat Watch	4
Heat Advisory	49
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	3
Freeze Warning	36
Wind Chill Warning	26
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	9
Wind Chill Watch	5
Cold Weather Advisory	12
Frost Advisory	32
Wind Chill Advisory	115
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	22
High Wind Watch	10
Wind Advisory	177
Fire
Red Flag Warning	23
Fire Weather Watch	7
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	2
Dense Fog Advisory	195
Freezing Fog Advisory	1

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 12, 10:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	3 hr
Jul 25, 2:53 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DMX	67 hr
Jul 20, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	51 min
Jul 20, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	23 min
Jul 20, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	31 min
Jul 20, 5:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	41 min
Jul 20, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DMX	45 min
Jul 20, 4:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	DMX	41 min
Jul 20, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	50 min
Jul 20, 3:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	48 min
Jul 20, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DMX	64 min
Jul 20, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DMX	67 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.