Ice Storm Warnings in the United States
588 ice storm warnings since 1986. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of ice storm warnings reaches back to 2005.
Ice Storm Warnings by state
Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.
- Ice Storm Warnings
- 588
- Busiest year
- 200786 ice storm warnings
- Average year
- 27over 22 years on file
- Busiest day
- November 30, 200711 ice storm warnings
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.
- Missouri48
- Arkansas45
- Texas43
- Iowa41
- Michigan38
- Kansas37
- Illinois36
- Pennsylvania35
- Oregon34
- Washington34
- West Virginia33
- Minnesota31
- Oklahoma28
- North Carolina26
- New York26
- Tennessee25
- Kentucky25
- Indiana25
- Wisconsin24
- Maryland24
- Virginia23
- Ohio19
- Nebraska19
- Mississippi18
- South Carolina14
- South Dakota14
- Alaska14
- New Jersey11
- Montana10
- Louisiana9
- Georgia9
- North Dakota9
- Massachusetts9
- Connecticut7
- Alabama6
- Vermont5
- New Hampshire5
- Maine4
- New Mexico3
- Idaho2
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.