Weather alerts in Ottawa County, Ohio

2,475 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Ottawa County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,475
Warnings: 682
Watches: 478
Advisories: 588
Busiest year: 2011163 alerts
Average year: 60over 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	383
Tornado Warning	32
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	247
Tornado Watch	48
Mesoscale Discussion	455
Special Weather Statement	137
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	27
Flash Flood Warning	52
River Flood Warning	37
Flash Flood Watch	26
Flood Watch	50
Areal Flood Advisory	70
Winter
Blizzard Warning	2
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	2
Snow Squall Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	28
Winter Storm Watch	32
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	15
Snow Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	111
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	7
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Excessive Heat Watch	5
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	50
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	26
Wind Chill Warning	8
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	14
Wind Chill Watch	4
Cold Weather Advisory	6
Frost Advisory	49
Wind Chill Advisory	50
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	30
High Wind Watch	24
Wind Advisory	141
Fire
Red Flag Warning	3
Fire Weather Watch	2
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	86
Freezing Fog Advisory	4
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	1
Lakeshore Flood Warning	39
Coastal Flood Watch	3
Lakeshore Flood Watch	20
Beach Hazards Statement	95
Coastal Flood Statement	13
Lakeshore Flood Statement	1
Rip Current Statement	26

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 4, 8:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	48 min
Sep 3, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CLE	79 min
Aug 22, 1:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	36 min
Aug 11, 5:32 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	58 min
Aug 11, 4:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	61 min
Aug 9, 8:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	57 min
Jul 28, 1:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	25 min
Jul 28, 1:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	36 min
Jul 6, 4:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	15 hr
Jul 6, 1:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	7 hr
Jul 6, 11:25 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	5 hr
Jul 6, 10:43 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	6 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.