Alert archive

Weather alerts in the United States, 2003

34,288 weather alerts in 2003, 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
34,288
Warnings
30,693
Watches
982
Advisories
0
Busiest month
May7,784 alerts
Busiest day
May 10, 2003697 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 Warning20,308
Tornado Warning3,032
Severe Thunderstorm Watch651
Tornado Watch331
Mesoscale Discussion2,613
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning4,009
Marine
Special Marine Warning3,344

By state

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

13 more states

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 10, 2003697alerts
  2. May 5, 2003655alerts
  3. May 6, 2003552alerts
  4. July 21, 2003552alerts
  5. May 7, 2003535alerts
  6. May 1, 2003515alerts
  7. July 8, 2003457alerts
  8. April 25, 2003434alerts
  9. June 12, 2003422alerts
  10. June 11, 2003421alerts
  11. July 22, 2003415alerts
  12. May 2, 2003409alerts
  13. July 9, 2003400alerts
  14. July 13, 2003394alerts
  15. May 16, 2003392alerts

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.