Weather alerts in Seward County, Kansas

4,075 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Seward County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 4,075
Warnings: 1,209
Watches: 842
Advisories: 719
Busiest year: 2011224 alerts
Average year: 99over 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	594
Tornado Warning	53
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	354
Tornado Watch	111
Mesoscale Discussion	839
Special Weather Statement	466
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	13
Flash Flood Warning	27
Flash Flood Watch	9
Flood Watch	17
Areal Flood Advisory	17
Winter
Blizzard Warning	9
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	1
Snow Squall Warning	4
Winter Storm Warning	23
Blizzard Watch	4
Winter Storm Watch	32
Freezing Rain Advisory	3
Snow Advisory	8
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	118
Heat
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Heat Advisory	27
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	37
Hard Freeze Warning	10
Wind Chill Warning	5
Extreme Cold Watch	3
Freeze Watch	22
Hard Freeze Watch	6
Wind Chill Watch	3
Cold Weather Advisory	5
Frost Advisory	40
Wind Chill Advisory	31
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Warning	1
Dust Storm Warning	1
High Wind Warning	99
High Wind Watch	51
Blowing Dust Advisory	11
Dust Storm Advisory	1
Wind Advisory	273
Fire
Red Flag Warning	329
Fire Weather Watch	230
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	165
Freezing Fog Advisory	15

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 6, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	50 min
Jul 26, 10:48 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DDC	22 hr
Jun 21, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	46 min
Jun 21, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	44 min
Jun 21, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	54 min
Jun 13, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	18 min
May 28, 1:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	3 hr
May 17, 2:00 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	DDC	31 hr
May 16, 12:27 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	DDC	33 hr
May 13, 12:09 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	DDC	32 hr
May 5, 10:38 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	DDC	34 hr
Apr 22, 2:01 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	DDC	28 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.