Alert archive / Extreme Cold Watches / 2026
Extreme Cold Watches in the United States, February 2026
20 extreme cold watches 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Watches by state
Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.
- Extreme Cold Watches
- 20
- Busiest day
- February 5, 202615 extreme cold watches
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.
- Texas14
- West Virginia12
- Virginia11
- Pennsylvania10
- North Carolina10
- New York9
- Florida9
- Mississippi9
- Maryland7
- Alabama7
- Louisiana7
- Georgia7
- Arkansas7
- Michigan6
- Minnesota6
- Wisconsin6
- Iowa5
- Alaska4
- Ohio4
- Massachusetts4
- Maine4
- South Carolina4
- Oklahoma4
- Vermont4
- Connecticut3
- Kentucky3
- Nebraska3
- Missouri3
- Illinois3
- Tennessee3
- North Dakota2
- South Dakota2
- New Jersey2
- Kansas2
- Montana2
- New Hampshire2
- California1
- New Mexico1
- Delaware1
- Indiana1
1 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.