Weather alerts in Elk County, Kansas

3,981 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Elk County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,981
Warnings: 1,016
Watches: 841
Advisories: 725
Busiest year: 2019266 alerts
Average year: 97over 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	555
Tornado Warning	45
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	398
Tornado Watch	182
Mesoscale Discussion	1,049
Special Weather Statement	350
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	108
Flash Flood Warning	56
Flash Flood Watch	57
Flood Watch	71
Winter
Blizzard Warning	1
Heavy Snow Warning	3
Ice Storm Warning	4
Snow Squall Warning	2
Winter Storm Warning	26
Blizzard Watch	1
Winter Storm Watch	30
Freezing Rain Advisory	3
Snow Advisory	6
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Winter Weather Advisory	104
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	42
Extreme Heat Warning	5
Excessive Heat Watch	9
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	136
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	33
Wind Chill Warning	3
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	17
Wind Chill Watch	3
Cold Weather Advisory	4
Frost Advisory	45
Wind Chill Advisory	16
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	15
High Wind Watch	9
Wind Advisory	239
Fire
Red Flag Warning	117
Fire Weather Watch	61
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	162
Freezing Fog Advisory	8

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 9, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	36 min
Aug 11, 11:18 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	ICT	4 days
Aug 7, 10:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	51 min
Aug 5, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	58 min
Jul 25, 2:11 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	ICT	54 hr
Jul 25, 1:11 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	ICT	19 hr
Jul 20, 12:18 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	ICT	31 hr
Jul 10, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	19 min
Jul 4, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	53 min
Jul 4, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	49 min
Jun 26, 12:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	4 hr
Jun 25, 11:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	17 hr

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record Forecast The radar archive

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.