Weather alerts in Foster County, North Dakota

2,933 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Foster County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,933
Warnings: 613
Watches: 554
Advisories: 1,084
Busiest year: 2011196 alerts
Average year: 73over 40 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	226
Tornado Warning	26
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	255
Tornado Watch	69
Mesoscale Discussion	566
Special Weather Statement	116
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	21
Flash Flood Warning	15
River Flood Warning	6
Flash Flood Watch	23
Flood Watch	12
River Flood Watch	3
Areal Flood Advisory	24
Winter
Blizzard Warning	47
Heavy Snow Warning	2
Ice Storm Warning	2
Winter Storm Warning	52
Blizzard Watch	14
Winter Storm Watch	78
Blowing Snow Advisory	4
Freezing Rain Advisory	14
Snow Advisory	9
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	8
Winter Weather Advisory	234
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	2
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Excessive Heat Watch	1
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	23
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	8
Freeze Warning	46
Wind Chill Warning	53
Extreme Cold Watch	4
Freeze Watch	15
Wind Chill Watch	3
Cold Weather Advisory	15
Frost Advisory	53
Wind Chill Advisory	219
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	36
High Wind Watch	36
Blowing Dust Advisory	1
Wind Advisory	289
Fire
Red Flag Warning	70
Fire Weather Watch	40
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	185
Freezing Fog Advisory	6

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 30, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	30 min
Aug 24, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	67 min
Aug 24, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	56 min
Aug 24, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	53 min
Jul 16, 10:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	31 min
Jul 16, 9:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	47 min
Jul 10, 2:02 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	BIS	5 days
Jul 9, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	63 min
Jul 9, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	58 min
Jul 9, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	66 min
Jul 9, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	62 min
Jun 28, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	54 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.