Weather alerts in Ottawa County, Michigan

2,821 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Ottawa County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,821
Warnings: 602
Watches: 389
Advisories: 837
Busiest year: 2008191 alerts
Average year: 71over 40 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	304
Tornado Warning	13
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	151
Tornado Watch	42
Mesoscale Discussion	343
Special Weather Statement	367
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	16
Flash Flood Warning	31
River Flood Warning	22
Flash Flood Watch	13
Flood Watch	49
River Flood Watch	5
Areal Flood Advisory	86
River Flood Advisory	9
Winter
Blizzard Warning	5
Heavy Snow Warning	4
Ice Storm Warning	1
Lake Effect Snow Warning	17
Winter Storm Warning	71
Lake Effect Snow Watch	7
Winter Storm Watch	70
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	10
Lake Effect Snow Advisory	38
Snow Advisory	16
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	276
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	4
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Excessive Heat Watch	4
Extreme Heat Watch	2
Heat Advisory	25
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	54
Wind Chill Warning	3
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	13
Wind Chill Watch	2
Cold Weather Advisory	3
Frost Advisory	79
Wind Chill Advisory	12
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	21
High Wind Watch	16
Wind Advisory	139
Fire
Red Flag Warning	22
Fire Weather Watch	8
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	97
Freezing Fog Advisory	4
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	2
Lakeshore Flood Warning	10
Lakeshore Flood Watch	6
Lakeshore Flood Advisory	37
Beach Hazards Statement	279
Lakeshore Flood Statement	4

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 9, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	83 min
Jul 3, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GRR	90 min
Jun 28, 1:26 PM EDT	Extreme Heat Warning	GRR	4 days
Jun 11, 8:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GRR	38 min
Jun 11, 8:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GRR	94 min
Jun 10, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	58 min
May 18, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	79 min
May 16, 4:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	24 min
May 1, 12:01 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	GRR	21 hr
Apr 19, 1:45 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	GRR	32 hr
Apr 17, 11:33 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GRR	21 days
Apr 14, 10:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GRR	29 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.