Weather alerts in Lake County, Michigan

2,018 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Lake County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,018
Warnings: 397
Watches: 297
Advisories: 684
Busiest year: 2008178 alerts
Average year: 55over 37 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	142
Tornado Warning	2
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	115
Tornado Watch	26
Mesoscale Discussion	341
Special Weather Statement	299
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	16
Flash Flood Warning	15
Flash Flood Watch	6
Flood Watch	26
Areal Flood Advisory	43
Winter
Blizzard Warning	3
Heavy Snow Warning	3
Lake Effect Snow Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	62
Lake Effect Snow Watch	2
Winter Storm Watch	70
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	13
Lake Effect Snow Advisory	27
Snow Advisory	10
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	276
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	1
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Excessive Heat Watch	3
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	19
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	97
Wind Chill Warning	3
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	18
Wind Chill Watch	2
Cold Weather Advisory	4
Frost Advisory	93
Wind Chill Advisory	19
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	9
High Wind Watch	8
Wind Advisory	89
Fire
Red Flag Warning	39
Fire Weather Watch	19
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	78
Freezing Fog Advisory	7

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 1, 11:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	57 min
Jun 28, 1:26 PM EDT	Extreme Heat Warning	GRR	4 days
Jun 10, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	55 min
May 11, 1:34 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	GRR	18 hr
May 10, 1:10 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	GRR	19 hr
May 9, 1:53 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	GRR	30 hr
May 6, 1:57 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	GRR	18 hr
May 5, 12:43 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	GRR	19 hr
May 4, 2:46 PM EDT	Red Flag Warning	GRR	4 hr
May 1, 12:01 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	GRR	21 hr
Apr 30, 12:45 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	GRR	19 hr
Apr 29, 1:34 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	GRR	18 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.