Weather alerts in Wayne County, Michigan

2,755 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Wayne County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,755
Warnings: 738
Watches: 420
Advisories: 621
Busiest year: 2019155 alerts
Average year: 67over 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	406
Tornado Warning	39
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	206
Tornado Watch	49
Mesoscale Discussion	537
Special Weather Statement	428
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	18
Flash Flood Warning	60
River Flood Warning	68
Flash Flood Watch	12
Flood Watch	49
Areal Flood Advisory	106
Winter
Blizzard Warning	1
Heavy Snow Warning	4
Ice Storm Warning	2
Snow Squall Warning	5
Winter Storm Warning	33
Winter Storm Watch	44
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	8
Snow Advisory	6
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	134
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	8
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	7
Extreme Heat Watch	3
Heat Advisory	45
Cold
Freeze Warning	39
Wind Chill Warning	6
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	7
Wind Chill Watch	5
Cold Weather Advisory	5
Frost Advisory	39
Wind Chill Advisory	31
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	23
High Wind Watch	27
Wind Advisory	119
Fire
Red Flag Warning	5
Fire Weather Watch	3
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	89
Freezing Fog Advisory	4
Coast and beach
Lakeshore Flood Warning	19
Coastal Flood Watch	1
Lakeshore Flood Watch	6
Coastal Flood Advisory	1
Lakeshore Flood Advisory	28
Beach Hazards Statement	1
Lakeshore Flood Statement	10

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 3, 3:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	DTX	42 min
Sep 3, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	49 min
Sep 3, 10:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DTX	55 min
Sep 3, 2:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	35 min
Sep 3, 12:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	49 min
Sep 2, 11:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	DTX	6 hr
Sep 2, 10:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DTX	73 min
Jul 3, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DTX	74 min
Jun 29, 1:57 PM EDT	Extreme Heat Warning	DTX	4 days
Jun 14, 11:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	74 min
Jun 10, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	56 min
Jun 9, 2:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	DTX	27 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.