Alert archive

Weather alerts in the United States, 1997

23,835 weather alerts in 1997, 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.

AKMEVTNHWAIDMTNDMNILWIMINYRIMAORNVWYSDIAINOHPANJCTCAUTCONEMOKYWVVAMDDEAZNMKSARTNNCSCDCOKLAMSALGAHITXFLPR
Alerts
23,835
Warnings
23,030
Watches
805
Advisories
0
Busiest month
June5,204 alerts
Busiest day
June 21, 1997375 alerts

Over time

By month

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

ProductAlerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning17,163
Tornado Warning2,169
Severe Thunderstorm Watch482
Tornado Watch323
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning3,697
Marine
Special Marine Warning1

By state

Every state and territory, with the alerts that covered any part of it. Each state’s page lists every one of them.

9 more states

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. June 21, 1997375alerts
  2. May 27, 1997351alerts
  3. June 13, 1997349alerts
  4. March 1, 1997341alerts
  5. May 3, 1997328alerts
  6. June 14, 1997319alerts
  7. August 17, 1997314alerts
  8. March 2, 1997313alerts
  9. February 21, 1997304alerts
  10. June 17, 1997295alerts
  11. April 22, 1997289alerts
  12. May 19, 1997273alerts
  13. March 29, 1997271alerts
  14. May 28, 1997265alerts
  15. July 9, 1997263alerts

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.