Weather alerts in Utah

17,588 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.

Weather alerts by county

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

Alerts: 17,588
Warnings: 7,154
Watches: 1,604
Advisories: 3,176
Busiest year: 20221,343 alerts
Average year: 429over 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	2,890
Tornado Warning	32
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	71
Tornado Watch	1
Mesoscale Discussion	445
Special Weather Statement	5,209
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	143
Flash Flood Warning	2,134
River Flood Warning	25
Flash Flood Watch	239
Flood Watch	96
River Flood Watch	12
Areal Flood Advisory	927
River Flood Advisory	46
Winter
Blizzard Warning	7
Heavy Snow Warning	51
Lake Effect Snow Warning	6
Snow Squall Warning	57
Winter Storm Warning	417
Blizzard Watch	5
Lake Effect Snow Watch	6
Winter Storm Watch	370
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	3
Lake Effect Snow Advisory	6
Snow Advisory	160
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	58
Winter Weather Advisory	872
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	28
Extreme Heat Warning	10
Excessive Heat Watch	26
Extreme Heat Watch	6
Heat Advisory	58
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	193
Hard Freeze Warning	100
Wind Chill Warning	13
Freeze Watch	109
Hard Freeze Watch	37
Wind Chill Watch	2
Frost Advisory	12
Wind Chill Advisory	1
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Warning	1
Dust Storm Warning	2
High Wind Warning	238
High Wind Watch	137
Blowing Dust Advisory	2
Wind Advisory	827
Fire
Red Flag Warning	806
Fire Weather Watch	487
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	198
Dense Smoke Advisory	2
Freezing Fog Advisory	3

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 22, 4:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SLC	Salt Lake, Utah	16 min
Sep 22, 4:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SLC	Salt Lake, Utah	25 min
Sep 22, 3:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SLC	Box Elder, Tooele	23 min
Sep 22, 2:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SLC	Tooele	28 min
Sep 18, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GJT	Uintah	30 min
Sep 18, 4:52 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	GJT	Uintah	5 hr
Sep 18, 4:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GJT	Uintah	34 min
Sep 18, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GJT	Uintah	47 min
Sep 18, 3:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GJT	Uintah	36 min
Sep 18, 3:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SLC	Carbon	26 min
Sep 18, 2:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GJT	Grand	32 min
Sep 18, 2:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SLC	Cache, Morgan, Rich, Weber	29 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.