Flood Watches in North Dakota
51 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 flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 51
- Busiest year
- 20119 flood watches
- Average year
- 4over 12 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.
- Steele County19
- Traill County19
- Barnes County18
- Cass County18
- Griggs County18
- Richland County18
- Nelson County17
- Ransom County17
- Sargent County17
- Eddy County16
- Grand Forks County16
- Benson County15
- Hettinger County15
- Mercer County15
- Pembina County15
- Ramsey County15
- Stutsman County15
- Walsh County15
- Adams County14
- Dickey County14
- Dunn County14
- LaMoure County14
- Logan County14
- McIntosh County14
- Oliver County14
- Stark County14
- Towner County14
- Wells County14
- Billings County13
- Cavalier County13
- Kidder County13
- Bottineau County12
- Bowman County12
- Foster County12
- Golden Valley County12
- Grant County12
- McHenry County12
- Renville County12
- Sheridan County12
- Slope County12
The latest flood watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 4:54 AM CDT | Flood Watch | FGF | Cass, Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 10 hr |
| Jul 4, 11:17 AM CDT | Flood Watch | FGF | Barnes, Cass, Grand Forks, Steele, Traill | 11 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.