Alert archive / High Wind Watches

High Wind Watches in the United States, 2024

417 high wind watches in 2024. 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
417
Busiest month
February71 high wind watches
Busiest day
January 7, 202420 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.

6 more states

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 7, 202420high wind watches
  2. February 27, 202418high wind watches
  3. January 8, 202411high wind watches
  4. January 11, 202410high wind watches
  5. April 5, 202410high wind watches
  6. May 5, 20249high wind watches
  7. March 22, 20248high wind watches
  8. February 23, 20247high wind watches
  9. November 17, 20246high wind watches
  10. February 29, 20246high wind watches
  11. March 12, 20246high wind watches
  12. April 3, 20246high wind watches
  13. April 4, 20246high wind watches
  14. April 15, 20246high wind watches
  15. October 3, 20245high 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.