Extreme Cold Warnings in the United States
328 extreme cold warnings since 1986. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of extreme cold warnings reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Warnings by state
Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.
- Extreme Cold Warnings
- 328
- Busiest year
- 2025165 extreme cold warnings
- Average year
- 47over 7 years on file
- Busiest day
- January 22, 202625 extreme cold 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.
- Minnesota42
- Texas32
- West Virginia25
- North Dakota24
- Montana24
- South Dakota21
- Nebraska19
- Pennsylvania18
- Iowa18
- Wisconsin16
- Florida15
- Alaska15
- Mississippi14
- North Carolina14
- Alabama13
- New York13
- Virginia12
- Arkansas11
- Illinois11
- Missouri10
- Oklahoma10
- Georgia10
- Kansas10
- New Mexico9
- Colorado9
- Louisiana8
- Indiana8
- Ohio8
- California7
- Maryland7
- Tennessee6
- Idaho6
- Kentucky5
- Michigan5
- Massachusetts5
- South Carolina4
- Wyoming4
- Vermont3
- Maine3
- New Hampshire3
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.