Flash Flood Watches in North Dakota
75 flash flood 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 flash flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flash Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 75
- Busiest year
- 201114 flash flood watches
- Average year
- 5over 14 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.
- McIntosh County31
- Dickey County29
- LaMoure County29
- Logan County29
- Kidder County26
- Stutsman County25
- Wells County25
- Emmons County25
- Burleigh County24
- Sheridan County24
- Foster County23
- Pierce County22
- Rolette County22
- Mercer County21
- Grant County21
- McHenry County20
- Oliver County20
- Bottineau County19
- Dunn County19
- McKenzie County19
- Renville County19
- Burke County18
- Divide County18
- Mountrail County18
- Ransom County18
- Sargent County18
- Williams County18
- Eddy County17
- Richland County17
- Stark County17
- Golden Valley County17
- Barnes County16
- Cass County16
- Nelson County16
- Walsh County16
- Adams County16
- Hettinger County16
- Billings County16
- Benson County15
- Cavalier County15
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.