Alert archive / Gale Watches

Gale Watches in the United States, 2019

609 gale watches in 2019. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of gale watches reaches back to 2005.

Gale Watches by state

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

AKMEVTNHWAIDMTNDMNILWIMINYRIMAORNVWYSDIAINOHPANJCTCAUTCONEMOKYWVVAMDDEAZNMKSARTNNCSCDCOKLAMSALGAHITXFLPR
Gale Watches
609
Busiest month
November96 gale watches
Busiest day
January 18, 201915 gale 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.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 18, 201915gale watches
  2. February 11, 201914gale watches
  3. November 25, 201913gale watches
  4. October 30, 201911gale watches
  5. January 5, 201911gale watches
  6. March 21, 201910gale watches
  7. November 11, 20199gale watches
  8. April 18, 20199gale watches
  9. April 26, 20199gale watches
  10. November 14, 20198gale watches
  11. January 7, 20198gale watches
  12. February 6, 20198gale watches
  13. February 22, 20198gale watches
  14. March 8, 20198gale watches
  15. April 1, 20198gale 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.