Weather alerts in Defiance County, Ohio

2,902 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Defiance County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,902
Warnings: 825
Watches: 531
Advisories: 655
Busiest year: 2011199 alerts
Average year: 74over 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	325
Tornado Warning	39
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	259
Tornado Watch	62
Mesoscale Discussion	653
Special Weather Statement	238
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	31
Flash Flood Warning	32
River Flood Warning	262
Flash Flood Watch	24
Flood Watch	47
River Flood Watch	39
Areal Flood Advisory	63
Winter
Blizzard Warning	2
Heavy Snow Warning	2
Ice Storm Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	28
Blizzard Watch	1
Winter Storm Watch	41
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	19
Lake Effect Snow Advisory	1
Snow Advisory	7
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	116
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	9
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	7
Extreme Heat Watch	2
Heat Advisory	62
Cold
Freeze Warning	55
Hard Freeze Warning	1
Wind Chill Warning	8
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	26
Hard Freeze Watch	2
Wind Chill Watch	2
Cold Weather Advisory	7
Frost Advisory	69
Wind Chill Advisory	35
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	18
High Wind Watch	14
Blowing Dust Advisory	2
Wind Advisory	123
Fire
Red Flag Warning	8
Fire Weather Watch	4
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	133
Freezing Fog Advisory	16

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 5, 2:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	50 min
Aug 10, 10:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	24 min
Aug 9, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	67 min
Aug 9, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	45 min
Jun 28, 1:29 PM EDT	Extreme Heat Warning	IWX	5 days
Jun 11, 11:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	47 min
Jun 11, 11:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	41 min
May 19, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	23 min
May 19, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	23 min
May 18, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	22 min
May 18, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	17 min
May 18, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	43 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.