Alert archive / Excessive Heat Watches
Excessive Heat Watches in the United States, 2021
114 excessive heat watches in 2021. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of excessive heat watches reaches back to 2005.
Excessive Heat Watches by state
Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.
- Excessive Heat Watches
- 114
- Busiest month
- June37 excessive heat watches
- Busiest day
- July 6, 20217 excessive heat watches
Over time
By month
By state
Every state and territory, with the alerts that covered any part of it. Each state’s page lists every one of them.
- California54
- Oregon17
- Arizona15
- Washington12
- Montana11
- Nevada11
- Idaho10
- Mississippi5
- New York4
- Louisiana3
- Texas3
- Florida3
- New Jersey3
- Connecticut3
- Alabama2
- Georgia2
- Pennsylvania2
- Iowa2
- Minnesota2
- Utah2
- South Carolina1
- Kansas1
- Missouri1
- Nebraska1
- Massachusetts1
- Wyoming1
- Virginia1
- South Dakota1
- West Virginia1
- New Mexico1
- Colorado1
- Rhode Island1
- Maryland1
- District of Columbia1
- Delaware1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.