Weather alerts in Colfax County, Nebraska

3,469 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Colfax County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,469
Warnings: 942
Watches: 687
Advisories: 808
Busiest year: 2024196 alerts
Average year: 85over 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	559
Tornado Warning	64
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	333
Tornado Watch	138
Mesoscale Discussion	867
Special Weather Statement	165
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	31
Flash Flood Warning	49
River Flood Warning	2
Flash Flood Watch	40
Flood Watch	21
Areal Flood Advisory	49
River Flood Advisory	2
Winter
Blizzard Warning	10
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	4
Snow Squall Warning	2
Winter Storm Warning	30
Blizzard Watch	2
Winter Storm Watch	50
Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	9
Snow Advisory	10
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	8
Winter Weather Advisory	176
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	5
Extreme Heat Warning	4
Excessive Heat Watch	10
Extreme Heat Watch	3
Heat Advisory	66
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	4
Freeze Warning	47
Hard Freeze Warning	1
Wind Chill Warning	11
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	13
Wind Chill Watch	8
Cold Weather Advisory	8
Frost Advisory	35
Wind Chill Advisory	72
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	30
High Wind Watch	16
Wind Advisory	238
Fire
Red Flag Warning	88
Fire Weather Watch	52
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	130
Freezing Fog Advisory	3

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 14, 3:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	31 min
Sep 11, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	28 min
Aug 30, 5:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	4 min
Aug 30, 4:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	17 min
Aug 30, 4:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	44 min
Aug 18, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	36 min
Aug 14, 4:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	3 hr
Aug 14, 3:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	41 min
Aug 13, 3:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	51 min
Aug 13, 3:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	28 min
Aug 13, 2:41 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	34 min
Aug 13, 2:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	41 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.