Alert archive

Weather alerts in the United States, 2002

27,284 weather alerts in 2002, 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
27,284
Warnings
26,465
Watches
819
Advisories
0
Busiest month
July4,846 alerts
Busiest day
November 11, 2002543 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 Warning17,767
Tornado Warning2,178
Severe Thunderstorm Watch583
Tornado Watch236
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning3,199
Marine
Special Marine Warning3,321

By state

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

12 more states

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. November 11, 2002543alerts
  2. June 4, 2002467alerts
  3. April 28, 2002423alerts
  4. April 18, 2002410alerts
  5. April 19, 2002369alerts
  6. May 2, 2002347alerts
  7. May 13, 2002301alerts
  8. May 7, 2002292alerts
  9. May 31, 2002288alerts
  10. July 3, 2002278alerts
  11. July 2, 2002274alerts
  12. November 10, 2002272alerts
  13. May 17, 2002268alerts
  14. May 8, 2002265alerts
  15. December 24, 2002264alerts

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.