Weather alerts in Cole County, Missouri

2,856 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Cole County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,856
Warnings: 925
Watches: 623
Advisories: 527
Busiest year: 2011189 alerts
Average year: 70over 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	369
Tornado Warning	45
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	275
Tornado Watch	139
Mesoscale Discussion	749
Special Weather Statement	32
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	47
Flash Flood Warning	114
River Flood Warning	182
Flash Flood Watch	90
Flood Watch	43
Areal Flood Advisory	58
Winter
Blizzard Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	24
Winter Storm Watch	34
Freezing Rain Advisory	4
Snow Advisory	5
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	115
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	16
Extreme Heat Warning	5
Excessive Heat Watch	10
Extreme Heat Watch	2
Heat Advisory	81
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	65
Wind Chill Warning	4
Freeze Watch	18
Wind Chill Watch	2
Cold Weather Advisory	5
Frost Advisory	43
Wind Chill Advisory	24
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	2
High Wind Watch	1
Wind Advisory	77
Fire
Red Flag Warning	47
Fire Weather Watch	9
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	112
Freezing Fog Advisory	2

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 9, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	37 min
Sep 3, 12:12 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	LSX	68 hr
Aug 19, 1:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	57 min
Aug 9, 1:05 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	LSX	8 days
Jul 26, 12:40 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	LSX	66 hr
Jul 9, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	42 min
Jul 4, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LSX	75 min
Jul 4, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LSX	66 min
Jun 27, 1:15 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	LSX	7 days
Jun 8, 5:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LSX	3 days
Jun 8, 5:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LSX	37 hr
Jun 8, 12:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LSX	8 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.