Alert archive / Extreme Cold Warnings / 2026
Extreme Cold Warnings in the United States, February 2026
22 extreme cold warnings in February 2026. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The last few weeks are still filling in as offices finish their follow-ups. 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
- 22
- Busiest day
- February 6, 202610 extreme cold warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
By state
Every state and territory, with the alerts that covered any part of it. Each state’s page lists every one of them.
- West Virginia17
- Pennsylvania14
- Texas14
- New York13
- Florida10
- North Carolina10
- Virginia9
- Mississippi9
- Arkansas8
- Ohio7
- Georgia7
- Minnesota7
- Indiana7
- Alaska6
- California6
- Maryland6
- Alabama6
- Louisiana6
- Missouri6
- Illinois6
- Massachusetts5
- Kentucky5
- Nebraska5
- Wisconsin5
- Oklahoma5
- Iowa5
- Michigan4
- South Carolina4
- South Dakota3
- New Mexico3
- Connecticut3
- Vermont3
- Tennessee3
- North Dakota2
- New Jersey2
- Maine2
- Montana2
- New Hampshire2
- Wyoming1
- Delaware1
2 more states
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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.