Weather alerts in Suffolk County, New York

4,446 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Suffolk County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 4,446
Warnings: 885
Watches: 430
Advisories: 1,685
Busiest year: 2018281 alerts
Average year: 114over 39 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	397
Tornado Warning	27
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	111
Tornado Watch	12
Mesoscale Discussion	378
Special Weather Statement	424
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	7
Flash Flood Warning	178
Flash Flood Watch	48
Flood Watch	62
Areal Flood Advisory	559
Winter
Blizzard Warning	14
Heavy Snow Warning	3
Ice Storm Warning	2
Snow Squall Warning	9
Winter Storm Warning	46
Blizzard Watch	6
Winter Storm Watch	46
Freezing Rain Advisory	8
Snow Advisory	4
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	129
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	6
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	4
Extreme Heat Watch	2
Heat Advisory	62
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	49
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	29
Cold Weather Advisory	3
Frost Advisory	59
Wind Chill Advisory	9
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	52
High Wind Watch	44
Wind Advisory	227
Fire
Red Flag Warning	7
Fire Weather Watch	1
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	11
Dense Fog Advisory	236
Freezing Fog Advisory	2
Tropical
Hurricane Warning	3
Storm Surge Warning	1
Tropical Storm Warning	10
Hurricane Watch	3
Storm Surge Watch	1
Tropical Storm Watch	9
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	71
Coastal Flood Watch	51
Coastal Flood Advisory	305
High Surf Advisory	70
Coastal Flood Statement	351
Rip Current Statement	293

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 13, 6:14 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	94 min
Jul 21, 4:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	3 hr
Jul 21, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	48 min
Jul 6, 1:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	2 hr
Jul 4, 9:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	33 min
Jul 4, 9:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	26 min
Jul 4, 8:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OKX	48 min
Jul 4, 8:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	35 min
Jun 30, 2:41 AM EDT	Extreme Heat Warning	OKX	5 days
Jun 11, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OKX	24 min
Jun 11, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	67 min
Jun 6, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	51 min

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.