Weather alerts in New York
73,307 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
- 73,307
- Warnings
- 29,104
- Watches
- 3,953
- Advisories
- 17,041
- Busiest year
- 20214,199 alerts
- Average year
- 1,788over 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.
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Westchester County4,738
- Suffolk County4,446
- Rensselaer County4,236
- Nassau County4,215
- Cayuga County4,160
- Saratoga County4,047
- Ulster County4,038
- Oneida County3,996
- Orange County3,958
- Queens County3,958
- Kings County3,957
- Herkimer County3,955
- Columbia County3,888
- Delaware County3,871
- Erie County3,861
- Dutchess County3,812
- Albany County3,747
- Broome County3,732
- Chenango County3,573
- Fulton County3,547
- Greene County3,544
- Rockland County3,537
- Washington County3,525
- Schenectady County3,451
- Otsego County3,444
- Bronx County3,437
- Montgomery County3,390
- Richmond County3,373
- Chautauqua County3,367
- Sullivan County3,353
- New York County3,344
- Oswego County3,342
- Tioga County3,323
- Schoharie County3,322
- Putnam County3,313
- Warren County3,291
- Madison County3,258
- Hamilton County3,225
- Cattaraugus County3,190
- Onondaga County3,161
22 more counties
- Lewis County3,149
- Cortland County3,130
- Essex County2,965
- Tompkins County2,905
- Wyoming County2,848
- Jefferson County2,832
- Steuben County2,827
- Chemung County2,685
- Clinton County2,629
- St. Lawrence County2,621
- Allegany County2,591
- Franklin County2,581
- Genesee County2,579
- Wayne County2,553
- Monroe County2,539
- Schuyler County2,478
- Seneca County2,443
- Livingston County2,404
- Ontario County2,377
- Yates County2,245
- Niagara County2,223
- Orleans County2,096
The latest warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 2:42 AM EDT | Gale Warning | OKX | 63 hr | |
| Sep 13, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida, Onondaga | 61 min |
| Sep 13, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga, Seneca | 67 min |
| Sep 13, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Franklin, St. Lawrence | 58 min |
| Sep 13, 3:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Niagara | 4 hr |
| Sep 13, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Onondaga | 25 min |
| Sep 13, 1:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans | 53 min |
| Sep 13, 9:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Putnam, Westchester | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 8:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Rockland | 4 hr |
| Sep 13, 7:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Westchester | 4 hr |
| Sep 4, 2:44 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 61 min | |
| Sep 3, 10:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Erie, Livingston, Wyoming | 2 hr |
Nearby
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.