Weather alerts in Nevada

22,587 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.

Weather alerts by county

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

Alerts: 22,587
Warnings: 6,300
Watches: 1,805
Advisories: 6,608
Busiest year: 20141,521 alerts
Average year: 551over 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	2,182
Tornado Warning	44
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	27
Mesoscale Discussion	240
Special Weather Statement	7,634
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	113
Flash Flood Warning	1,685
River Flood Warning	138
Flash Flood Watch	191
Flood Watch	102
River Flood Watch	15
Areal Flood Advisory	1,820
River Flood Advisory	94
Winter
Blizzard Warning	17
Heavy Snow Warning	21
Ice Storm Warning	1
Lake Effect Snow Warning	2
Snow Squall Warning	31
Winter Storm Warning	401
Blizzard Watch	3
Lake Effect Snow Watch	1
Winter Storm Watch	370
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	8
Lake Effect Snow Advisory	9
Snow Advisory	139
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	18
Winter Weather Advisory	969
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	118
Extreme Heat Warning	17
Excessive Heat Watch	89
Extreme Heat Watch	10
Heat Advisory	115
Cold
Freeze Warning	113
Hard Freeze Warning	19
Wind Chill Warning	5
Freeze Watch	61
Hard Freeze Watch	4
Wind Chill Watch	1
Cold Weather Advisory	3
Frost Advisory	64
Wind Chill Advisory	40
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Warning	2
Dust Storm Warning	80
High Wind Warning	317
High Wind Watch	252
Blowing Dust Advisory	76
Dust Storm Advisory	78
Lake Wind Advisory	1,365
Wind Advisory	1,636
Fire
Red Flag Warning	994
Fire Weather Watch	679
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	1
Dense Fog Advisory	53
Dense Smoke Advisory	22
Freezing Fog Advisory	97

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 15, 8:41 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Lincoln	49 min
Sep 15, 12:48 PM PDT	Red Flag Warning	LKN	Eureka, Lander, Nye	55 hr
Sep 15, 12:40 PM PDT	Red Flag Warning	LKN	Eureka, Lander, Nye	31 hr
Sep 11, 12:16 PM PDT	Red Flag Warning	LKN	Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Nye, White Pine	35 hr
Sep 11, 10:58 AM PDT	Red Flag Warning	VEF	Clark, Esmeralda, Lincoln, Nye	37 hr
Sep 11, 10:18 AM PDT	Red Flag Warning	REV	Churchill, Douglas, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Storey and 1 more	38 hr
Sep 8, 12:09 AM PDT	Extreme Heat Warning	VEF	Clark, Nye	68 hr
Sep 6, 10:40 AM PDT	Red Flag Warning	REV	Churchill, Douglas, Lyon, Mineral	9 hr
Sep 1, 2:40 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	35 min
Sep 1, 2:11 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	34 min
Aug 31, 3:34 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Lincoln	41 min
Aug 31, 11:42 AM PDT	Red Flag Warning	REV	Douglas, Lyon, Storey, Washoe	35 hr

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.