Weather alerts in Franklin County, Nebraska

3,888 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Franklin County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,888
Warnings: 1,147
Watches: 764
Advisories: 759
Busiest year: 2024220 alerts
Average year: 95over 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	737
Tornado Warning	50
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	374
Tornado Watch	139
Mesoscale Discussion	872
Special Weather Statement	346
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	22
Flash Flood Warning	19
River Flood Warning	3
Flash Flood Watch	39
Flood Watch	19
Areal Flood Advisory	47
Winter
Blizzard Warning	13
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	26
Blizzard Watch	2
Winter Storm Watch	43
Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	11
Sleet Advisory	1
Snow Advisory	4
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	6
Winter Weather Advisory	146
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	5
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Excessive Heat Watch	6
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	71
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	37
Wind Chill Warning	5
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	19
Wind Chill Watch	6
Cold Weather Advisory	5
Frost Advisory	47
Wind Chill Advisory	48
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Warning	1
Dust Storm Warning	2
High Wind Warning	41
High Wind Watch	31
Blowing Dust Advisory	7
Dust Storm Advisory	2
Wind Advisory	160
Fire
Red Flag Warning	180
Fire Weather Watch	84
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	192
Freezing Fog Advisory	10

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 14, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	47 min
Sep 12, 11:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	39 min
Aug 22, 5:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	50 min
Aug 22, 5:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	45 min
Aug 16, 2:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	42 min
Jul 25, 5:34 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	GID	52 hr
Jul 3, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	43 min
Jun 20, 3:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	40 min
Jun 9, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	62 min
Jun 9, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	45 min
Jun 9, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	46 min
Jun 8, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	46 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.