Weather alerts in Lincoln County, Nebraska

5,529 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Lincoln County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 5,529
Warnings: 2,363
Watches: 908
Advisories: 868
Busiest year: 2025293 alerts
Average year: 135over 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	1,573
Tornado Warning	192
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	429
Tornado Watch	123
Mesoscale Discussion	943
Special Weather Statement	447
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	15
Flash Flood Warning	64
River Flood Warning	34
Flash Flood Watch	33
Flood Watch	13
River Flood Watch	2
Areal Flood Advisory	178
River Flood Advisory	34
Winter
Blizzard Warning	14
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	1
Snow Squall Warning	15
Winter Storm Warning	40
Blizzard Watch	3
Winter Storm Watch	57
Freezing Rain Advisory	7
Snow Advisory	6
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	170
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	4
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Excessive Heat Watch	6
Heat Advisory	61
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	28
Hard Freeze Warning	2
Wind Chill Warning	11
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	14
Hard Freeze Watch	1
Wind Chill Watch	6
Cold Weather Advisory	6
Frost Advisory	32
Wind Chill Advisory	56
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	4
High Wind Warning	50
High Wind Watch	36
Blowing Dust Advisory	2
Dust Storm Advisory	1
Wind Advisory	165
Fire
Red Flag Warning	313
Fire Weather Watch	184
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	143
Freezing Fog Advisory	6

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 10, 1:32 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	LBF	30 hr
Sep 6, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LBF	43 min
Sep 6, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	49 min
Sep 1, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	51 min
Aug 29, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	43 min
Aug 28, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	38 min
Aug 27, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	65 min
Aug 27, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LBF	41 min
Aug 27, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LBF	40 min
Aug 27, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	62 min
Aug 17, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	42 min
Aug 17, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LBF	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.