Extreme Cold Watches in North Dakota
7 extreme cold 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 extreme cold watches reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Watches
- 7
- Busiest year
- 20123 extreme cold watches
- Average year
- 2over 3 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.
- Bottineau County4
- Burke County4
- Foster County4
- McHenry County4
- Pierce County4
- Renville County4
- Rolette County4
- Wells County4
- Barnes County3
- Benson County3
- Billings County3
- Burleigh County3
- Cass County3
- Cavalier County3
- Divide County3
- Dunn County3
- Eddy County3
- Golden Valley County3
- Grand Forks County3
- Griggs County3
- Kidder County3
- McKenzie County3
- Mercer County3
- Mountrail County3
- Nelson County3
- Oliver County3
- Pembina County3
- Ramsey County3
- Ransom County3
- Richland County3
- Sargent County3
- Sheridan County3
- Stark County3
- Steele County3
- Stutsman County3
- Towner County3
- Traill County3
- Walsh County3
- Williams County3
- Adams County2
The latest extreme cold watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 1:41 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 26 more | 25 hr |
| Jan 20, 1:07 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | FGF | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more | 48 hr |
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.