Weather alerts in Smith County, Kansas

4,119 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Smith County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 4,119
Warnings: 1,386
Watches: 780
Advisories: 768
Busiest year: 2011234 alerts
Average year: 100over 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	883
Tornado Warning	90
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	374
Tornado Watch	132
Mesoscale Discussion	832
Special Weather Statement	353
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	33
Flash Flood Warning	29
River Flood Warning	15
Flash Flood Watch	41
Flood Watch	17
Areal Flood Advisory	52
Winter
Blizzard Warning	14
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	3
Snow Squall Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	23
Blizzard Watch	2
Winter Storm Watch	40
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	10
Snow Advisory	7
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	142
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	10
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Excessive Heat Watch	8
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	89
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	40
Wind Chill Warning	5
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	22
Wind Chill Watch	6
Cold Weather Advisory	5
Frost Advisory	46
Wind Chill Advisory	44
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Warning	1
Dust Storm Warning	2
High Wind Warning	44
High Wind Watch	30
Blowing Dust Advisory	8
Dust Storm Advisory	2
Wind Advisory	176
Fire
Red Flag Warning	190
Fire Weather Watch	106
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	174
Freezing Fog Advisory	7

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 14, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	47 min
Sep 14, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	42 min
Sep 14, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	50 min
Sep 14, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	39 min
Aug 22, 5:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	50 min
Aug 16, 2:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	42 min
Jul 25, 5:34 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	GID	52 hr
Jun 20, 3:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	40 min
Jun 8, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	39 min
Jun 8, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	7 min
Jun 8, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	50 min
Jun 8, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	54 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.