Weather alerts in the United States, September 2002
1,686 weather alerts in September 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.
- Alerts
- 1,686
- Warnings
- 1,637
- Watches
- 49
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- September 19, 2002180 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 | 787 |
| Tornado Warning | 137 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 29 |
| Tornado Watch | 20 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 359 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 354 |
By state
Every state and territory, with the alerts that covered any part of it. Each state’s page lists every one of them.
- Texas3,258
- Kansas1,514
- Missouri1,192
- Alabama1,007
- Nebraska980
- Mississippi977
- Florida970
- Oklahoma948
- Michigan936
- Louisiana912
- Georgia882
- Tennessee871
- Minnesota860
- Kentucky838
- Ohio826
- North Carolina823
- Virginia815
- Arkansas789
- Iowa764
- Wisconsin723
- South Dakota677
- Illinois667
- Pennsylvania588
- Indiana557
- South Carolina540
- New York535
- North Dakota528
- Montana526
- Colorado440
- Arizona405
- New Mexico311
- West Virginia302
- New Jersey274
- Maryland206
- Wyoming160
- Massachusetts136
- Utah135
- California130
- Maine128
- Idaho84
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.