Weather alerts in Norton 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.

Norton County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,981
Warnings: 1,160
Watches: 752
Advisories: 761
Busiest year: 2023243 alerts
Average year: 100over 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	640
Tornado Warning	75
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	352
Tornado Watch	124
Mesoscale Discussion	853
Special Weather Statement	455
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	22
Flash Flood Warning	64
River Flood Warning	5
Flash Flood Watch	35
Flood Watch	12
Areal Flood Advisory	9
Winter
Blizzard Warning	16
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	30
Blizzard Watch	4
Winter Storm Watch	45
Freezing Rain Advisory	6
Snow Advisory	6
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	9
Winter Weather Advisory	118
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	2
Heat Advisory	79
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	30
Hard Freeze Warning	2
Wind Chill Warning	12
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	18
Hard Freeze Watch	1
Wind Chill Watch	4
Cold Weather Advisory	5
Frost Advisory	53
Wind Chill Advisory	56
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Warning	5
Dust Storm Warning	5
High Wind Warning	70
High Wind Watch	41
Blowing Dust Advisory	10
Wind Advisory	177
Fire
Red Flag Warning	176
Fire Weather Watch	112
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	228
Freezing Fog Advisory	5

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 27, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	74 min
Aug 27, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GLD	72 min
Aug 25, 8:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	67 min
Aug 13, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	35 min
Jul 27, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	32 min
Jun 30, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	83 min
Jun 9, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	28 min
Jun 9, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	46 min
Jun 8, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	27 min
Jun 1, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	26 min
May 30, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	36 min
May 30, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	32 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.