Weather alerts in Nelson County, North Dakota

3,059 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Nelson County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,059
Warnings: 839
Watches: 503
Advisories: 1,115
Busiest year: 2022208 alerts
Average year: 78over 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	394
Tornado Warning	74
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	229
Tornado Watch	54
Mesoscale Discussion	503
Special Weather Statement	99
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	18
Flash Flood Warning	27
Flash Flood Watch	16
Flood Watch	17
Areal Flood Advisory	22
Winter
Blizzard Warning	54
Heavy Snow Warning	3
Ice Storm Warning	2
Winter Storm Warning	58
Blizzard Watch	16
Winter Storm Watch	100
Blowing Snow Advisory	3
Freezing Rain Advisory	21
Snow Advisory	4
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	261
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	1
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Excessive Heat Watch	1
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	18
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	9
Freeze Warning	41
Wind Chill Warning	56
Extreme Cold Watch	3
Freeze Watch	8
Wind Chill Watch	2
Cold Weather Advisory	28
Frost Advisory	63
Wind Chill Advisory	261
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	35
High Wind Watch	20
Blowing Dust Advisory	2
Wind Advisory	270
Fire
Red Flag Warning	66
Fire Weather Watch	36
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	156
Freezing Fog Advisory	1

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 6, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	49 min
Sep 3, 12:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FGF	62 min
Sep 3, 11:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	59 min
Aug 30, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	57 min
Aug 24, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FGF	47 min
Aug 24, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FGF	56 min
Aug 24, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	32 min
Aug 24, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	49 min
Aug 24, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FGF	54 min
Aug 3, 6:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	57 min
Jul 11, 1:44 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	FGF	59 hr
Jun 2, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FGF	53 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.