Weather alerts in Franklin County, Ohio

3,688 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Franklin County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,688
Warnings: 981
Watches: 568
Advisories: 898
Busiest year: 2011236 alerts
Average year: 90over 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	597
Tornado Warning	58
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	276
Tornado Watch	83
Mesoscale Discussion	741
Special Weather Statement	500
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	20
Flash Flood Warning	99
River Flood Warning	41
Flash Flood Watch	47
Flood Watch	56
Areal Flood Advisory	283
River Flood Advisory	37
Winter
Blizzard Warning	1
Heavy Snow Warning	2
Ice Storm Warning	1
Snow Squall Warning	6
Winter Storm Warning	32
Winter Storm Watch	33
Freezing Rain Advisory	11
Snow Advisory	9
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Winter Weather Advisory	141
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	8
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Excessive Heat Watch	8
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	52
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	3
Freeze Warning	79
Wind Chill Warning	7
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	43
Wind Chill Watch	5
Cold Weather Advisory	10
Frost Advisory	74
Wind Chill Advisory	46
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	18
High Wind Watch	11
Wind Advisory	118
Fire
Red Flag Warning	8
Fire Weather Watch	3
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	112
Freezing Fog Advisory	3

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 9, 8:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	44 min
Sep 9, 8:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	39 min
Sep 9, 8:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	31 min
Aug 22, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	34 min
Aug 20, 7:29 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILN	11 hr
Aug 20, 7:14 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ILN	4 hr
Aug 20, 4:22 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILN	14 hr
Aug 20, 3:49 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	4 hr
Aug 16, 12:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	35 min
Aug 16, 12:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	48 min
Aug 16, 2:24 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILN	5 hr
Aug 15, 11:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ILN	3 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.