Alert archive / Flash Flood Watches
Flash Flood Watches in the United States, 2020
559 flash flood watches in 2020. 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.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 559
- Busiest month
- August102 flash flood watches
- Busiest day
- August 28, 202013 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.
- Virginia64
- North Carolina61
- Kentucky49
- Missouri49
- Arkansas46
- Maryland42
- Georgia42
- Mississippi40
- Illinois39
- West Virginia37
- Alabama37
- Texas36
- Indiana36
- Louisiana34
- Tennessee33
- South Carolina32
- Pennsylvania24
- Kansas24
- California21
- Ohio20
- Oklahoma20
- Iowa18
- District of Columbia18
- Arizona16
- Wisconsin15
- Florida14
- Nebraska13
- New Jersey12
- New York10
- Colorado10
- Minnesota9
- Hawaii8
- Delaware8
- South Dakota7
- Michigan6
- Connecticut6
- New Mexico5
- Oregon5
- Massachusetts4
- North Dakota4
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.