Weather alerts in Dawson County, Nebraska

4,355 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Dawson County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 4,355
Warnings: 1,276
Watches: 757
Advisories: 793
Busiest year: 2022248 alerts
Average year: 106over 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	775
Tornado Warning	75
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	363
Tornado Watch	127
Mesoscale Discussion	938
Special Weather Statement	591
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	20
Flash Flood Warning	33
River Flood Warning	11
Flash Flood Watch	30
Flood Watch	18
River Flood Watch	1
Areal Flood Advisory	68
Winter
Blizzard Warning	16
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	2
Snow Squall Warning	2
Winter Storm Warning	37
Blizzard Watch	4
Winter Storm Watch	46
Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	12
Snow Advisory	6
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	7
Winter Weather Advisory	166
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	3
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Excessive Heat Watch	5
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	46
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	46
Wind Chill Warning	8
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	21
Wind Chill Watch	7
Cold Weather Advisory	5
Frost Advisory	51
Wind Chill Advisory	59
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Warning	1
Dust Storm Warning	2
High Wind Warning	47
High Wind Watch	34
Blowing Dust Advisory	7
Dust Storm Advisory	1
Wind Advisory	176
Fire
Red Flag Warning	195
Fire Weather Watch	99
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	180
Freezing Fog Advisory	7

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 27, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	52 min
Aug 27, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	61 min
Aug 27, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GID	37 min
Aug 20, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	38 min
Aug 15, 1:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	51 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
Jul 2, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	45 min
Jul 2, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	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.