Alert archive / Freeze Watches

Freeze Watches in the United States, 2020

235 freeze watches in 2020. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of freeze watches reaches back to 2005.

Freeze Watches by state

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

AKMEVTNHWAIDMTNDMNILWIMINYRIMAORNVWYSDIAINOHPANJCTCAUTCONEMOKYWVVAMDDEAZNMKSARTNNCSCDCOKLAMSALGAHITXFLPR
Freeze Watches
235
Busiest month
October63 freeze watches
Busiest day
May 7, 202024 freeze 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.

7 more states

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 7, 202024freeze watches
  2. February 2, 202010freeze watches
  3. October 23, 20209freeze watches
  4. May 10, 20208freeze watches
  5. October 15, 20207freeze watches
  6. April 9, 20207freeze watches
  7. October 30, 20206freeze watches
  8. November 29, 20206freeze watches
  9. April 15, 20206freeze watches
  10. May 8, 20206freeze watches
  11. September 7, 20206freeze watches
  12. October 21, 20205freeze watches
  13. October 22, 20205freeze watches
  14. October 31, 20205freeze watches
  15. November 7, 20205freeze 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.