Coastal Flood Warnings in the United States
1,256 coastal flood warnings since 1986. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of coastal flood warnings reaches back to 2005.
Coastal Flood Warnings by state
Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.
- Coastal Flood Warnings
- 1,256
- Busiest year
- 2024124 coastal flood warnings
- Average year
- 60over 21 years on file
- Busiest day
- December 17, 202310 coastal flood warnings
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By state
Every state and territory, with the alerts that covered any part of it. Each state’s page lists every one of them.
- Maryland243
- North Carolina146
- Virginia129
- New Jersey128
- New York103
- Maine103
- Florida95
- New Hampshire87
- Delaware82
- Texas78
- Louisiana77
- South Carolina70
- District of Columbia70
- Massachusetts59
- Alaska56
- Mississippi45
- Georgia38
- California37
- Connecticut37
- Washington37
- Pennsylvania27
- Alabama23
- Puerto Rico16
- Rhode Island12
- U.S. Virgin Islands12
- Oregon11
- Michigan10
- Guam6
- Northern Mariana Islands5
- Ohio1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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.