Alert archive

Gale Warnings in the United States

48,695 gale warnings since 1986. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of gale warnings reaches back to 2005.

Gale Warnings by state

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

AKMEVTNHWAIDMTNDMNILWIMINYRIMAORNVWYSDIAINOHPANJCTCAUTCONEMOKYWVVAMDDEAZNMKSARTNNCSCDCOKLAMSALGAHITXFLPR
Gale Warnings
48,695
Busiest year
20112,698 gale warnings
Average year
2,213over 22 years on file
Busiest day
January 5, 201433 gale warnings

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

By state

Every state and territory, with the alerts that covered any part of it. Each state’s page lists every one of them.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 5, 201433gale warnings
  2. March 4, 202532gale warnings
  3. December 28, 202531gale warnings
  4. January 11, 202430gale warnings
  5. December 10, 202129gale warnings
  6. March 11, 202229gale warnings
  7. February 27, 202429gale warnings
  8. November 9, 201828gale warnings
  9. January 8, 202428gale warnings
  10. October 31, 201427gale warnings
  11. February 23, 201627gale warnings
  12. December 14, 202527gale warnings
  13. December 19, 201226gale warnings
  14. November 21, 201526gale warnings
  15. October 30, 201926gale warnings

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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.