Blizzard Watches in North Dakota
39 blizzard watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of blizzard watches reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Watches
- 39
- Busiest year
- 20099 blizzard watches
- Average year
- 4over 9 years on file
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 county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barnes County17
- Eddy County17
- Grand Forks County17
- Richland County17
- Sargent County17
- Benson County16
- Griggs County16
- Nelson County16
- Steele County16
- Traill County16
- Cass County15
- Cavalier County15
- Pembina County15
- Ramsey County15
- Ransom County15
- Towner County15
- Walsh County15
- Foster County14
- Wells County14
- Dickey County13
- Kidder County13
- LaMoure County13
- Stutsman County13
- Bottineau County12
- Logan County12
- McIntosh County12
- Burleigh County11
- Emmons County11
- McHenry County11
- Pierce County11
- Rolette County11
- Sheridan County11
- Burke County10
- Grant County10
- Mountrail County10
- Renville County10
- Divide County9
- Mercer County9
- Oliver County9
- Adams County8
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.