Alert archive / Extreme Cold Watches

Extreme Cold Watches in the United States, 2025

78 extreme cold watches in 2025. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of extreme cold watches reaches back to 2005.

Extreme Cold Watches by state

Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.

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Extreme Cold Watches
78
Busiest month
February39 extreme cold watches
Busiest day
February 16, 202524 extreme cold 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.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. February 16, 202524extreme cold watches
  2. January 19, 202513extreme cold watches
  3. January 18, 202510extreme cold watches
  4. January 17, 20258extreme cold watches
  5. February 15, 20258extreme cold watches
  6. December 12, 20255extreme cold watches
  7. February 17, 20253extreme cold watches
  8. February 10, 20252extreme cold watches
  9. December 7, 20251extreme cold watches
  10. January 24, 20251extreme cold watches
  11. January 30, 20251extreme cold watches
  12. February 8, 20251extreme cold watches
  13. February 18, 20251extreme cold watches

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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.