Alert archive

High Surf Advisories in the United States

5,480 high surf advisories since 1986. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of high surf advisories reaches back to 2005.

High Surf Advisories by state

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

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High Surf Advisories
5,480
Busiest year
2024383 high surf advisories
Average year
261over 21 years on file
Busiest day
January 24, 201010 high surf advisories

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 24, 201010high surf advisories
  2. September 12, 201810high surf advisories
  3. January 15, 202210high surf advisories
  4. February 12, 20239high surf advisories
  5. January 8, 20249high surf advisories
  6. August 30, 20238high surf advisories
  7. March 24, 20248high surf advisories
  8. April 29, 20067high surf advisories
  9. August 21, 20097high surf advisories
  10. April 3, 20107high surf advisories
  11. January 4, 20127high surf advisories
  12. December 8, 20147high surf advisories
  13. January 15, 20167high surf advisories
  14. March 9, 20167high surf advisories
  15. January 22, 20177high surf advisories

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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.