Weather alerts in Lake County, Ohio

2,795 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Lake County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,795
Warnings: 745
Watches: 440
Advisories: 671
Busiest year: 2011175 alerts
Average year: 68over 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	331
Tornado Warning	15
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	194
Tornado Watch	31
Mesoscale Discussion	364
Special Weather Statement	322
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	43
Flash Flood Warning	73
River Flood Warning	96
Flash Flood Watch	26
Flood Watch	56
Areal Flood Advisory	98
Winter
Blizzard Warning	2
Heavy Snow Warning	2
Ice Storm Warning	1
Lake Effect Snow Warning	59
Snow Squall Warning	6
Winter Storm Warning	46
Blizzard Watch	1
Lake Effect Snow Watch	34
Winter Storm Watch	53
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	14
Lake Effect Snow Advisory	66
Snow Advisory	4
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	3
Winter Weather Advisory	171
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	4
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Excessive Heat Watch	2
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	22
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	18
Wind Chill Warning	7
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	11
Wind Chill Watch	3
Cold Weather Advisory	7
Frost Advisory	44
Wind Chill Advisory	31
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	37
High Wind Watch	24
Wind Advisory	156
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	53
Freezing Fog Advisory	1
Coast and beach
Lakeshore Flood Warning	2
Lakeshore Flood Watch	2
Beach Hazards Statement	195
Coastal Flood Statement	20
Lakeshore Flood Statement	2
Rip Current Statement	36

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 3, 6:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	23 min
Sep 3, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	CLE	59 min
Sep 3, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	39 min
Sep 3, 1:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	41 min
Aug 23, 8:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	38 min
Aug 22, 1:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	4 hr
Aug 22, 1:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	67 min
Aug 22, 12:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	43 min
Aug 10, 8:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	40 min
Jul 6, 1:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	4 hr
Jul 3, 8:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	49 min
Jun 29, 12:15 PM EDT	Extreme Heat Warning	CLE	4 days

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.