Weather alerts in the United States, February 1997
606 weather alerts in February 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.
- Alerts
- 606
- Warnings
- 575
- Watches
- 31
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- February 21, 1997304 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 | 361 |
| Tornado Warning | 29 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 8 |
| Tornado Watch | 23 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 185 |
By state
Every state and territory, with the alerts that covered any part of it. Each state’s page lists every one of them.
- Texas3,515
- Kansas1,159
- Oklahoma1,093
- Alabama1,064
- Tennessee1,032
- Mississippi1,015
- Georgia959
- Florida933
- Arkansas852
- Kentucky824
- Nebraska764
- South Dakota728
- Missouri714
- Louisiana692
- Ohio682
- Minnesota619
- North Carolina591
- Colorado566
- Arizona543
- Illinois539
- Pennsylvania467
- Iowa459
- Montana449
- New Mexico446
- North Dakota418
- Wisconsin415
- South Carolina360
- Michigan352
- Indiana333
- Virginia305
- West Virginia297
- California290
- New York286
- Idaho254
- Wyoming195
- Utah192
- Oregon144
- Maryland115
- Nevada111
- New Jersey104
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.