Weather alerts in Mills County, Iowa

3,644 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Mills County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,644
Warnings: 1,082
Watches: 706
Advisories: 784
Busiest year: 2008207 alerts
Average year: 89over 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	672
Tornado Warning	94
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	328
Tornado Watch	163
Mesoscale Discussion	900
Special Weather Statement	172
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	34
Flash Flood Warning	52
River Flood Warning	34
Flash Flood Watch	61
Flood Watch	24
River Flood Watch	1
Areal Flood Advisory	68
River Flood Advisory	8
Winter
Blizzard Warning	10
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	3
Snow Squall Warning	2
Winter Storm Warning	40
Blizzard Watch	2
Winter Storm Watch	45
Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	4
Snow Advisory	12
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	4
Winter Weather Advisory	152
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	18
Extreme Heat Warning	5
Excessive Heat Watch	12
Extreme Heat Watch	6
Heat Advisory	92
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	35
Wind Chill Warning	7
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	15
Wind Chill Watch	7
Cold Weather Advisory	7
Frost Advisory	30
Wind Chill Advisory	64
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	12
High Wind Watch	9
Wind Advisory	173
Fire
Red Flag Warning	61
Fire Weather Watch	32
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	1
Dense Fog Advisory	162
Freezing Fog Advisory	5

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 14, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	38 min
Sep 14, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	48 min
Sep 14, 6:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	15 min
Sep 14, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	38 min
Sep 9, 2:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	3 hr
Aug 5, 2:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	43 min
Aug 5, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	42 min
Aug 5, 12:07 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	5 hr
Aug 4, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	29 min
Jul 24, 11:26 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	OAX	71 hr
Jul 8, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	46 min
Jun 30, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	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.