Alert archive / Freeze Watches
Freeze Watches in the United States, 2022
290 freeze watches in 2022. 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.
- Freeze Watches
- 290
- Busiest month
- October116 freeze watches
- Busiest day
- October 16, 202229 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.
- California47
- Florida36
- Texas24
- Georgia23
- Colorado18
- North Carolina16
- Oregon15
- Virginia15
- Kentucky14
- Kansas14
- Alabama14
- Ohio14
- Indiana14
- Missouri13
- West Virginia13
- Arkansas12
- Louisiana12
- Pennsylvania11
- Mississippi11
- Illinois10
- New York8
- Tennessee8
- Maryland8
- Oklahoma7
- Arizona7
- New Jersey6
- New Mexico6
- South Dakota6
- South Carolina5
- Connecticut4
- Michigan4
- Nebraska4
- Utah4
- Washington3
- North Dakota3
- Maine2
- Delaware2
- Iowa2
- Wisconsin2
- Massachusetts2
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.