Alert archive

Weather alerts in the United States, 1998

31,401 weather alerts in 1998, 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
31,401
Warnings
30,502
Watches
899
Advisories
0
Busiest month
June8,602 alerts
Busiest day
June 19, 1998513 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 Warning22,238
Tornado Warning3,605
Severe Thunderstorm Watch520
Tornado Watch379
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning4,659

By state

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

10 more states

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. June 19, 1998513alerts
  2. April 16, 1998502alerts
  3. June 30, 1998470alerts
  4. May 31, 1998463alerts
  5. June 29, 1998456alerts
  6. June 5, 1998439alerts
  7. June 16, 1998436alerts
  8. November 10, 1998425alerts
  9. April 8, 1998424alerts
  10. June 13, 1998422alerts
  11. May 7, 1998393alerts
  12. May 29, 1998390alerts
  13. June 10, 1998364alerts
  14. June 27, 1998363alerts
  15. June 15, 1998352alerts

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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.