Weather alerts in Washoe County, Nevada

3,883 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Washoe County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,883
Warnings: 889
Watches: 571
Advisories: 2,263
Busiest year: 2017228 alerts
Average year: 105over 37 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	222
Tornado Warning	5
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	1
Mesoscale Discussion	31
Special Weather Statement	129
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	19
Flash Flood Warning	113
River Flood Warning	7
Flash Flood Watch	40
Flood Watch	45
River Flood Watch	3
Areal Flood Advisory	127
River Flood Advisory	3
Winter
Blizzard Warning	8
Heavy Snow Warning	8
Ice Storm Warning	1
Lake Effect Snow Warning	2
Snow Squall Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	172
Blizzard Watch	1
Lake Effect Snow Watch	1
Winter Storm Watch	197
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Lake Effect Snow Advisory	9
Snow Advisory	57
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	6
Winter Weather Advisory	382
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	5
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Excessive Heat Watch	5
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	36
Cold
Freeze Warning	15
Freeze Watch	12
Cold Weather Advisory	1
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Warning	1
Dust Storm Warning	18
High Wind Warning	91
High Wind Watch	101
Blowing Dust Advisory	37
Dust Storm Advisory	17
Lake Wind Advisory	1,123
Wind Advisory	375
Fire
Red Flag Warning	198
Fire Weather Watch	164
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	1
Dense Fog Advisory	15
Dense Smoke Advisory	19
Freezing Fog Advisory	54

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 11, 10:18 AM PDT	Red Flag Warning	REV	38 hr
Aug 31, 11:42 AM PDT	Red Flag Warning	REV	35 hr
Aug 21, 7:37 AM PDT	Red Flag Warning	REV	39 hr
Aug 14, 5:15 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	45 min
Aug 13, 2:15 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	REV	3 hr
Aug 13, 2:10 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	50 min
Aug 13, 1:25 PM PDT	Tornado Warning	REV	30 min
Aug 13, 1:21 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	39 min
Aug 13, 1:16 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	REV	3 hr
Aug 12, 4:03 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	REV	3 hr
Aug 12, 3:15 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	REV	3 hr
Aug 6, 12:50 AM PDT	Extreme Heat Warning	REV	4 days

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.