Weather alerts in Cattaraugus County, New York

3,190 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Cattaraugus County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,190
Warnings: 1,053
Watches: 464
Advisories: 738
Busiest year: 2014178 alerts
Average year: 78over 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	525
Tornado Warning	47
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	158
Tornado Watch	21
Mesoscale Discussion	516
Special Weather Statement	419
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	30
Flash Flood Warning	143
River Flood Warning	35
Flash Flood Watch	32
Flood Watch	57
Areal Flood Advisory	39
Winter
Blizzard Warning	2
Heavy Snow Warning	3
Lake Effect Snow Warning	98
Snow Squall Warning	19
Winter Storm Warning	65
Lake Effect Snow Watch	57
Winter Storm Watch	81
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	18
Lake Effect Snow Advisory	78
Lake Effect Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	4
Snow Advisory	6
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	274
Heat
Excessive Heat Watch	2
Heat Advisory	11
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	34
Hard Freeze Warning	2
Wind Chill Warning	13
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	20
Wind Chill Watch	8
Cold Weather Advisory	8
Frost Advisory	74
Wind Chill Advisory	45
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	35
High Wind Watch	27
Wind Advisory	137
Fire
Red Flag Warning	1
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	7
Dense Fog Advisory	35

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 2, 10:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BUF	75 min
Sep 2, 9:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	36 min
Sep 2, 8:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	4 hr
Sep 2, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BUF	79 min
Sep 2, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BUF	60 min
Sep 2, 7:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	50 min
Aug 10, 10:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	63 min
Jul 28, 8:06 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	4 hr
Jul 28, 2:23 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	3 hr
Jul 28, 12:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	55 min
Jul 18, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	50 min
Jun 18, 8:43 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	BUF	32 min

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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.