High Wind Watches in the United States
7,846 high wind watches since 1986. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by state
Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 7,846
- Busiest year
- 2012478 high wind watches
- Average year
- 357over 22 years on file
- Busiest day
- December 13, 202123 high wind watches
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.
- Wyoming1,207
- California1,068
- Texas860
- New Mexico855
- Montana838
- Alaska659
- Oregon541
- Colorado381
- Washington375
- Nebraska303
- Nevada252
- Kansas239
- South Dakota217
- New York191
- Massachusetts154
- Maine149
- Utah137
- North Carolina136
- Virginia128
- Pennsylvania104
- Idaho102
- Tennessee97
- North Dakota95
- Arizona93
- Michigan93
- Oklahoma92
- West Virginia92
- Rhode Island86
- Connecticut82
- Maryland74
- Ohio68
- Vermont56
- New Jersey55
- Minnesota54
- Iowa53
- Indiana52
- Hawaii46
- New Hampshire44
- Delaware28
- Illinois27
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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.