Weather alerts in the United States, October 1989
219 weather alerts in October 1989, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered.
Weather alerts by state
Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.
- Alerts
- 219
- Warnings
- 219
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- October 20, 198935 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 | 89 |
| Tornado Warning | 24 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 106 |
By state
Every state and territory, with the alerts that covered any part of it. Each state’s page lists every one of them.
- Texas1,778
- Oklahoma822
- North Carolina494
- Kansas474
- Mississippi432
- Louisiana386
- Alabama386
- Arkansas362
- Indiana312
- Nebraska280
- Georgia277
- Iowa269
- New York224
- Pennsylvania221
- Ohio219
- Florida215
- Virginia210
- South Carolina209
- Illinois194
- Missouri189
- Wisconsin184
- Tennessee177
- Kentucky172
- Minnesota168
- West Virginia159
- South Dakota150
- Michigan117
- New Mexico106
- Colorado105
- New Jersey100
- Maryland91
- North Dakota88
- Wyoming64
- Montana55
- Arizona45
- California45
- Massachusetts39
- Vermont38
- Connecticut33
- Idaho21
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.