Alert archive / Flood Watches / 2026
Flood Watches in the United States, May 2026
69 flood watches in May 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 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
- 69
- Busiest day
- May 26, 202613 flood 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.
- Indiana73
- Ohio66
- Illinois62
- Kentucky59
- Pennsylvania56
- Texas55
- Missouri54
- West Virginia51
- Kansas46
- New Mexico42
- Virginia41
- Iowa41
- Arizona30
- New York25
- Montana25
- Nebraska25
- North Carolina24
- Wisconsin23
- Colorado22
- Tennessee22
- New Jersey19
- Michigan19
- Washington18
- Alabama18
- Arkansas18
- Maryland17
- Alaska15
- Louisiana15
- Utah14
- Connecticut14
- Wyoming14
- Minnesota14
- Oklahoma14
- Hawaii13
- Mississippi13
- California11
- Delaware10
- Florida9
- Georgia9
- District of Columbia9
Nearby
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.