Weather alerts in Seward County, Nebraska

3,535 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Seward County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,535
Warnings: 1,018
Watches: 710
Advisories: 756
Busiest year: 2024203 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	598
Tornado Warning	54
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	336
Tornado Watch	149
Mesoscale Discussion	907
Special Weather Statement	144
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	22
Flash Flood Warning	40
River Flood Warning	52
Flash Flood Watch	49
Flood Watch	21
Areal Flood Advisory	40
River Flood Advisory	3
Winter
Blizzard Warning	10
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	2
Snow Squall Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	34
Blizzard Watch	2
Winter Storm Watch	47
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	8
Snow Advisory	8
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	8
Winter Weather Advisory	163
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	11
Extreme Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	11
Extreme Heat Watch	3
Heat Advisory	76
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	49
Hard Freeze Warning	1
Wind Chill Warning	7
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	18
Wind Chill Watch	6
Cold Weather Advisory	6
Frost Advisory	36
Wind Chill Advisory	59
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	1
High Wind Warning	24
High Wind Watch	16
Blowing Dust Advisory	2
Dust Storm Advisory	1
Wind Advisory	216
Fire
Red Flag Warning	104
Fire Weather Watch	51
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	126
Freezing Fog Advisory	3

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 12, 9:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	41 min
Aug 19, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	49 min
Aug 19, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	54 min
Aug 19, 12:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	49 min
Aug 18, 3:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	42 min
Aug 18, 1:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	51 min
Aug 18, 1:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	44 min
Jul 24, 11:26 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	OAX	71 hr
Jul 8, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	43 min
Jul 4, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	25 min
Jun 11, 4:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	33 min
Jun 11, 4:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	50 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.