Flood Watches in the United States, 2022
719 flood watches in 2022. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by state
Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.
- Flood Watches
- 719
- Busiest month
- August157 flood watches
- Busiest day
- February 21, 202219 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.
- New Mexico59
- Virginia57
- Kentucky53
- California51
- West Virginia46
- Texas44
- Arizona44
- Ohio39
- Indiana39
- Illinois37
- Missouri33
- Pennsylvania32
- Washington32
- Florida26
- Tennessee25
- Arkansas25
- Colorado25
- New York24
- Oklahoma24
- Mississippi24
- Kansas23
- Georgia22
- Alaska22
- Louisiana22
- North Carolina21
- Alabama20
- Minnesota20
- Nevada20
- Utah20
- Maryland19
- District of Columbia16
- Iowa13
- Oregon12
- South Carolina12
- Montana12
- Maine11
- Idaho9
- New Jersey9
- Vermont9
- Michigan8
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.