Weather alerts in Ford County, Kansas

4,932 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Ford County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 4,932
Warnings: 1,900
Watches: 824
Advisories: 866
Busiest year: 2011257 alerts
Average year: 120over 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	1,250
Tornado Warning	105
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	373
Tornado Watch	131
Mesoscale Discussion	887
Special Weather Statement	455
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	27
Flash Flood Warning	57
Flash Flood Watch	14
Flood Watch	27
Areal Flood Advisory	19
Winter
Blizzard Warning	13
Heavy Snow Warning	2
Ice Storm Warning	1
Snow Squall Warning	2
Winter Storm Warning	26
Blizzard Watch	5
Winter Storm Watch	36
Freezing Rain Advisory	6
Snow Advisory	7
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	132
Heat
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Heat Advisory	47
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	31
Hard Freeze Warning	12
Wind Chill Warning	6
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	27
Hard Freeze Watch	6
Wind Chill Watch	3
Cold Weather Advisory	5
Frost Advisory	49
Wind Chill Advisory	40
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Warning	1
Dust Storm Warning	1
High Wind Warning	114
High Wind Watch	47
Blowing Dust Advisory	10
Wind Advisory	282
Fire
Red Flag Warning	250
Fire Weather Watch	153
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	247
Freezing Fog Advisory	17

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 12, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	34 min
Sep 10, 3:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	40 min
Sep 5, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	34 min
Aug 14, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	18 min
Aug 6, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	50 min
Aug 6, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	43 min
Aug 6, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	33 min
Jul 26, 10:48 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DDC	22 hr
Jul 23, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	29 min
Jul 23, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	27 min
Jul 23, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	35 min
Jul 23, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	45 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.