Weather alerts in Wayne County, Nebraska

3,216 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Wayne County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,216
Warnings: 825
Watches: 630
Advisories: 809
Busiest year: 2024180 alerts
Average year: 80over 40 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	444
Tornado Warning	48
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	297
Tornado Watch	128
Mesoscale Discussion	801
Special Weather Statement	151
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	18
Flash Flood Warning	45
Flash Flood Watch	33
Flood Watch	17
Areal Flood Advisory	37
Winter
Blizzard Warning	15
Heavy Snow Warning	2
Ice Storm Warning	2
Winter Storm Warning	42
Blizzard Watch	3
Winter Storm Watch	53
Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	5
Snow Advisory	12
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	8
Winter Weather Advisory	198
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	5
Extreme Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	8
Extreme Heat Watch	3
Heat Advisory	57
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	4
Freeze Warning	45
Hard Freeze Warning	2
Wind Chill Warning	16
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	12
Wind Chill Watch	8
Cold Weather Advisory	9
Frost Advisory	38
Wind Chill Advisory	90
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	32
High Wind Watch	16
Wind Advisory	238
Fire
Red Flag Warning	102
Fire Weather Watch	50
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	113
Freezing Fog Advisory	2

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 1, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	25 min
Aug 13, 2:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	41 min
Aug 12, 4:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	46 min
Aug 12, 4:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	48 min
Aug 12, 3:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	45 min
Aug 12, 3:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	52 min
Jul 30, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	47 min
Jul 24, 11:26 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	OAX	71 hr
Jun 30, 12:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	50 min
Jun 30, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	39 min
Jun 30, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	45 min
Jun 9, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	28 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.