Weather alerts in Polk County, Wisconsin

2,271 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Polk County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,271
Warnings: 560
Watches: 433
Advisories: 579
Busiest year: 2010127 alerts
Average year: 55over 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	336
Tornado Warning	53
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	216
Tornado Watch	77
Mesoscale Discussion	524
Special Weather Statement	175
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	3
Flash Flood Warning	11
Flash Flood Watch	24
Flood Watch	12
Areal Flood Advisory	9
Winter
Blizzard Warning	2
Heavy Snow Warning	3
Ice Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	79
Winter Storm Watch	72
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	11
Snow Advisory	10
Winter Weather Advisory	185
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	6
Extreme Heat Warning	4
Excessive Heat Watch	4
Extreme Heat Watch	4
Heat Advisory	26
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	4
Freeze Warning	27
Wind Chill Warning	16
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	6
Wind Chill Watch	6
Cold Weather Advisory	7
Frost Advisory	54
Wind Chill Advisory	119
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	4
High Wind Watch	2
Wind Advisory	30
Fire
Red Flag Warning	11
Fire Weather Watch	8
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	126
Freezing Fog Advisory	1

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 24, 12:59 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	MPX	56 hr
Jul 12, 2:43 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	MPX	6 days
Jun 28, 12:44 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	MPX	47 hr
Jun 19, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	31 min
Jun 19, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	56 min
Jun 19, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	45 min
Jun 19, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	45 min
Jun 19, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	53 min
Jun 10, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	38 min
Jun 10, 3:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	41 min
May 14, 11:39 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	MPX	33 hr
May 10, 1:00 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	MPX	19 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.