Alert archive / Extreme Cold Warnings
Extreme Cold Warnings in the United States, 2025
165 extreme cold warnings in 2025. 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
- 165
- Busiest month
- February79 extreme cold warnings
- Busiest day
- January 20, 202524 extreme cold warnings
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.
- Minnesota23
- Montana20
- Texas18
- North Dakota15
- South Dakota15
- Nebraska14
- Iowa13
- Wisconsin11
- Colorado9
- Kansas9
- West Virginia8
- Alaska7
- Alabama7
- New Mexico6
- Idaho6
- Florida5
- Mississippi5
- Illinois5
- Oklahoma5
- North Carolina4
- Pennsylvania4
- Missouri4
- Virginia3
- Wyoming3
- Georgia3
- Tennessee3
- Arkansas3
- Oregon2
- Washington2
- Louisiana2
- Maryland1
- Michigan1
- Utah1
- California1
- Indiana1
- Maine1
- New Hampshire1
- Ohio1
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.