Weather alerts in Buffalo County, Nebraska

4,437 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Buffalo County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 4,437
Warnings: 1,461
Watches: 768
Advisories: 881
Busiest year: 2022247 alerts
Average year: 108over 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	922
Tornado Warning	105
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	386
Tornado Watch	126
Mesoscale Discussion	948
Special Weather Statement	379
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	27
Flash Flood Warning	37
River Flood Warning	31
Flash Flood Watch	31
Flood Watch	18
Areal Flood Advisory	86
Winter
Blizzard Warning	17
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	3
Snow Squall Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	36
Blizzard Watch	4
Winter Storm Watch	44
Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	14
Snow Advisory	8
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	8
Winter Weather Advisory	175
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	3
Extreme Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	5
Extreme Heat Watch	3
Heat Advisory	52
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	50
Wind Chill Warning	8
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	24
Wind Chill Watch	7
Cold Weather Advisory	6
Frost Advisory	51
Wind Chill Advisory	62
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	3
High Wind Warning	47
High Wind Watch	33
Blowing Dust Advisory	6
Dust Storm Advisory	2
Wind Advisory	179
Fire
Red Flag Warning	164
Fire Weather Watch	86
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	220
Freezing Fog Advisory	10

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 30, 1:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	39 min
Aug 18, 12:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	43 min
Aug 14, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	52 min
Aug 13, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	47 min
Jul 30, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	42 min
Jul 30, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	47 min
Jul 30, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	38 min
Jul 25, 5:34 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	GID	52 hr
Jul 2, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	37 min
Jun 20, 9:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	21 hr
Jun 20, 9:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	16 min
Jun 20, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	48 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.