Coastal Flood Watches in the United States
893 coastal flood watches since 1986. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of coastal flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Coastal Flood Watches by state
Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.
- Coastal Flood Watches
- 893
- Busiest year
- 202490 coastal flood watches
- Average year
- 43over 21 years on file
- Busiest day
- March 8, 20247 coastal flood watches
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.
- Maryland159
- New Jersey99
- Virginia97
- Florida81
- Maine80
- North Carolina74
- Alaska68
- New York63
- Delaware61
- South Carolina58
- Massachusetts56
- New Hampshire54
- District of Columbia54
- Texas48
- Louisiana45
- Georgia39
- Washington36
- Connecticut35
- Mississippi30
- Puerto Rico25
- U.S. Virgin Islands25
- California19
- Pennsylvania18
- Rhode Island15
- Alabama13
- Oregon8
- Guam4
- Northern Mariana Islands4
- Ohio3
- Michigan1
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.