Cold Weather Advisories in the United States
1,345 cold weather advisories since 1986. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of cold weather advisories reaches back to 2005.
Cold Weather Advisories by state
Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.
- Cold Weather Advisories
- 1,345
- Busiest year
- 2025782 cold weather advisories
- Average year
- 448over 3 years on file
- Busiest day
- January 20, 202554 cold weather advisories
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.
- Florida122
- Texas108
- West Virginia90
- North Carolina88
- Minnesota88
- Virginia73
- Georgia68
- Alaska68
- Montana66
- North Dakota65
- Pennsylvania61
- Iowa61
- Wisconsin57
- Indiana56
- Illinois55
- Nebraska55
- New York53
- California52
- Kentucky51
- Ohio51
- Alabama50
- Missouri45
- Mississippi44
- Louisiana44
- South Dakota43
- Maryland41
- New Mexico40
- Maine40
- Kansas39
- Michigan39
- Arkansas34
- Tennessee34
- South Carolina33
- Washington30
- Oregon26
- Oklahoma23
- Colorado20
- Wyoming20
- Massachusetts18
- New Hampshire17
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.