Weather alerts in Kent County, Michigan

3,037 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Kent County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,037
Warnings: 710
Watches: 412
Advisories: 920
Busiest year: 2011215 alerts
Average year: 74over 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	363
Tornado Warning	32
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	180
Tornado Watch	50
Mesoscale Discussion	498
Special Weather Statement	497
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	17
Flash Flood Warning	32
River Flood Warning	93
Flash Flood Watch	13
Flood Watch	47
River Flood Watch	10
Areal Flood Advisory	104
River Flood Advisory	166
Winter
Blizzard Warning	4
Heavy Snow Warning	3
Ice Storm Warning	1
Lake Effect Snow Warning	8
Winter Storm Warning	52
Lake Effect Snow Watch	3
Winter Storm Watch	65
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	13
Lake Effect Snow Advisory	18
Snow Advisory	12
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	3
Winter Weather Advisory	252
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	4
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Excessive Heat Watch	4
Extreme Heat Watch	2
Heat Advisory	28
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	57
Wind Chill Warning	3
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	13
Wind Chill Watch	2
Cold Weather Advisory	3
Frost Advisory	91
Wind Chill Advisory	16
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	16
High Wind Watch	14
Wind Advisory	105
Fire
Red Flag Warning	23
Fire Weather Watch	8
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	104
Freezing Fog Advisory	4

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 9, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	42 min
Jul 3, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GRR	73 min
Jun 28, 1:26 PM EDT	Extreme Heat Warning	GRR	4 days
Jun 16, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	42 min
Jun 16, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	42 min
Jun 11, 9:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GRR	29 min
Jun 11, 9:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GRR	38 min
Jun 11, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GRR	62 min
Jun 10, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	58 min
May 18, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GRR	36 min
May 18, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	79 min
May 1, 12:01 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	GRR	21 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.