Weather alerts in Polk County, Nebraska

3,538 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Polk County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,538
Warnings: 839
Watches: 697
Advisories: 771
Busiest year: 2024206 alerts
Average year: 86over 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	458
Tornado Warning	57
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	356
Tornado Watch	142
Mesoscale Discussion	908
Special Weather Statement	323
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	38
Flash Flood Warning	18
River Flood Warning	8
Flash Flood Watch	31
Flood Watch	16
Areal Flood Advisory	44
River Flood Advisory	1
Winter
Blizzard Warning	14
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	4
Snow Squall Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	27
Blizzard Watch	2
Winter Storm Watch	36
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	16
Snow Advisory	5
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	7
Winter Weather Advisory	161
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	6
Extreme Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	7
Extreme Heat Watch	3
Heat Advisory	66
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	47
Wind Chill Warning	9
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	19
Wind Chill Watch	9
Cold Weather Advisory	6
Frost Advisory	50
Wind Chill Advisory	61
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	37
High Wind Watch	20
Blowing Dust Advisory	5
Dust Storm Advisory	1
Wind Advisory	145
Fire
Red Flag Warning	110
Fire Weather Watch	55
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	194
Freezing Fog Advisory	8

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 19, 12:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	66 min
Aug 19, 12:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	52 min
Aug 19, 11:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	48 min
Aug 19, 11:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	41 min
Aug 18, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	35 min
Jul 25, 5:34 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	GID	52 hr
Jun 11, 2:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	40 min
Jun 11, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	43 min
Jun 9, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	45 min
Jun 5, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	51 min
Jun 5, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	38 min
May 17, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	52 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.