Weather alerts in Rice County, Kansas

4,228 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Rice County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 4,228
Warnings: 1,270
Watches: 822
Advisories: 959
Busiest year: 2019267 alerts
Average year: 106over 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	632
Tornado Warning	71
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	391
Tornado Watch	149
Mesoscale Discussion	872
Special Weather Statement	305
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	144
Flash Flood Warning	33
River Flood Warning	55
Flash Flood Watch	37
Flood Watch	36
Winter
Blizzard Warning	4
Heavy Snow Warning	2
Ice Storm Warning	2
Snow Squall Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	33
Blizzard Watch	2
Winter Storm Watch	40
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	2
Snow Advisory	5
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	4
Winter Weather Advisory	144
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	17
Extreme Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	6
Heat Advisory	98
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	37
Wind Chill Warning	5
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	21
Wind Chill Watch	4
Cold Weather Advisory	5
Frost Advisory	41
Wind Chill Advisory	33
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	1
High Wind Warning	42
High Wind Watch	23
Blowing Dust Advisory	3
Dust Storm Advisory	1
Wind Advisory	437
Fire
Red Flag Warning	187
Fire Weather Watch	111
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	172
Freezing Fog Advisory	13

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 19, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	55 min
Sep 19, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	23 min
Aug 14, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	48 min
Aug 14, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	32 min
Aug 11, 11:18 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	ICT	4 days
Jul 25, 2:11 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	ICT	54 hr
Jul 10, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	41 min
Jul 10, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	65 min
Jun 22, 2:33 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	3 days
Jun 21, 5:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	5 hr
Jun 21, 3:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	4 hr
Jun 21, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	82 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.