Weather alerts in Schenectady County, New York

3,451 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Schenectady County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,451
Warnings: 731
Watches: 497
Advisories: 939
Busiest year: 2011218 alerts
Average year: 84over 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	400
Tornado Warning	10
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	226
Tornado Watch	29
Mesoscale Discussion	733
Special Weather Statement	551
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	27
Flash Flood Warning	61
River Flood Warning	34
Flash Flood Watch	43
Flood Watch	80
Areal Flood Advisory	235
Winter
Blizzard Warning	2
Heavy Snow Warning	4
Ice Storm Warning	2
Snow Squall Warning	27
Winter Storm Warning	70
Winter Storm Watch	74
Blowing Snow Advisory	4
Freezing Rain Advisory	25
Lake Effect Snow Advisory	2
Snow Advisory	10
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Winter Weather Advisory	226
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	5
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	4
Extreme Heat Watch	2
Heat Advisory	79
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	42
Wind Chill Warning	9
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	9
Wind Chill Watch	5
Cold Weather Advisory	7
Frost Advisory	99
Wind Chill Advisory	46
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	27
High Wind Watch	20
Wind Advisory	162
Fire
Red Flag Warning	7
Fire Weather Watch	3
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	3
Dense Fog Advisory	39
Tropical
Tropical Storm Warning	1
Tropical Storm Watch	1

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 27, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	28 min
Aug 6, 7:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	99 min
Aug 6, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	55 min
Jul 29, 8:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ALY	13 hr
Jul 29, 4:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ALY	17 hr
Jul 29, 2:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	6 hr
Jul 29, 2:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ALY	19 hr
Jul 29, 10:58 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ALY	6 hr
Jul 29, 8:52 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	6 hr
Jul 29, 6:30 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ALY	5 hr
Jul 29, 4:26 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	2 hr
Jul 29, 3:40 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	7 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.