Weather alerts in Alger County, Michigan

1,984 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Alger County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 1,984
Warnings: 495
Watches: 227
Advisories: 756
Busiest year: 2026116 alerts
Average year: 48over 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	216
Tornado Warning	7
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	56
Tornado Watch	12
Mesoscale Discussion	144
Special Weather Statement	154
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	4
Flash Flood Warning	6
Flash Flood Watch	2
Flood Watch	6
Areal Flood Advisory	26
Winter
Blizzard Warning	22
Heavy Snow Warning	5
Ice Storm Warning	4
Lake Effect Snow Warning	57
Winter Storm Warning	106
Blizzard Watch	3
Lake Effect Snow Watch	26
Winter Storm Watch	87
Freezing Rain Advisory	8
Lake Effect Snow Advisory	106
Lake Effect Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	14
Snow Advisory	14
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	6
Winter Weather Advisory	295
Heat
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Heat Advisory	4
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	3
Freeze Warning	12
Wind Chill Warning	2
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	8
Wind Chill Watch	1
Cold Weather Advisory	7
Frost Advisory	62
Wind Chill Advisory	28
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	16
High Wind Watch	11
Wind Advisory	74
Fire
Red Flag Warning	16
Fire Weather Watch	14
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	52
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	3
Lakeshore Flood Warning	15
Coastal Flood Advisory	3
Lakeshore Flood Advisory	57
Beach Hazards Statement	169
Lakeshore Flood Statement	39

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 20, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	19 min
Jul 20, 7:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MQT	2 hr
Jul 20, 6:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MQT	26 min
Jul 20, 6:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MQT	38 min
Jul 20, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	62 min
Jul 20, 10:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	55 min
Jul 17, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	67 min
Jul 12, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	38 min
Jul 12, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	59 min
Jul 12, 2:31 PM EDT	Extreme Heat Warning	MQT	55 hr
Jul 12, 12:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	53 min
Jun 30, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	61 min

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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.