Weather alerts in Russell County, Kansas

4,334 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Russell County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 4,334
Warnings: 1,346
Watches: 764
Advisories: 956
Busiest year: 2019240 alerts
Average year: 106over 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	753
Tornado Warning	89
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	357
Tornado Watch	127
Mesoscale Discussion	812
Special Weather Statement	456
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	89
Flash Flood Warning	40
River Flood Warning	11
Flash Flood Watch	34
Flood Watch	27
Winter
Blizzard Warning	6
Heavy Snow Warning	2
Ice Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	37
Blizzard Watch	3
Winter Storm Watch	43
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	2
Snow Advisory	6
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	150
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	15
Extreme Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	6
Heat Advisory	91
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	43
Wind Chill Warning	5
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	23
Wind Chill Watch	4
Cold Weather Advisory	5
Frost Advisory	44
Wind Chill Advisory	39
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	1
High Wind Warning	57
High Wind Watch	24
Blowing Dust Advisory	4
Wind Advisory	434
Fire
Red Flag Warning	193
Fire Weather Watch	114
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	165
Freezing Fog Advisory	10

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 13, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	32 min
Aug 13, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	42 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, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	55 min
Jun 30, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	20 min
Jun 30, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	60 min
Jun 21, 8:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	12 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
Jun 20, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	78 min
Jun 20, 11:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	9 hr

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.