Alert archive / High Wind Watches

High Wind Watches in the United States, 2012

478 high wind watches in 2012. 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.

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High Wind Watches
478
Busiest month
January77 high wind watches
Busiest day
October 27, 201215 high wind 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.

2 more states

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. October 27, 201215high wind watches
  2. December 18, 201210high wind watches
  3. December 15, 20129high wind watches
  4. February 20, 20129high wind watches
  5. February 27, 20129high wind watches
  6. January 19, 20128high wind watches
  7. January 21, 20128high wind watches
  8. February 24, 20128high wind watches
  9. October 16, 20127high wind watches
  10. February 19, 20127high wind watches
  11. March 4, 20127high wind watches
  12. March 25, 20127high wind watches
  13. March 29, 20127high wind watches
  14. May 25, 20127high wind watches
  15. October 14, 20126high wind 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.