Alert archive / High Wind Watches

High Wind Watches in the United States, 2025

434 high wind watches in 2025. 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
434
Busiest month
March128 high wind watches
Busiest day
March 13, 202519 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.

5 more states

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 13, 202519high wind watches
  2. December 16, 202516high wind watches
  3. March 2, 202515high wind watches
  4. March 12, 202514high wind watches
  5. December 27, 202512high wind watches
  6. February 15, 202512high wind watches
  7. December 17, 202511high wind watches
  8. March 17, 202510high wind watches
  9. November 4, 20259high wind watches
  10. December 7, 20259high wind watches
  11. December 15, 20259high wind watches
  12. March 3, 20259high wind watches
  13. March 16, 20259high wind watches
  14. December 14, 20258high wind watches
  15. October 19, 20257high 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.