Alert archive / Flash Flood Watches

Flash Flood Watches in the United States, 2016

556 flash flood watches in 2016. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of flash flood watches reaches back to 2005.

Flash Flood Watches by state

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

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Flash Flood Watches
556
Busiest month
August115 flash flood watches
Busiest day
August 12, 201612 flash flood 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.

13 more states

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. August 12, 201612flash flood watches
  2. August 11, 201610flash flood watches
  3. June 30, 20169flash flood watches
  4. July 3, 20169flash flood watches
  5. August 1, 20169flash flood watches
  6. August 24, 20169flash flood watches
  7. May 26, 20168flash flood watches
  8. June 6, 20168flash flood watches
  9. June 22, 20168flash flood watches
  10. July 7, 20168flash flood watches
  11. August 3, 20168flash flood watches
  12. February 3, 20167flash flood watches
  13. March 9, 20167flash flood watches
  14. June 4, 20167flash flood watches
  15. July 27, 20167flash flood 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.