Freeze Watches in North Dakota
37 freeze 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 freeze watches reaches back to 2005.
Freeze Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Freeze Watches
- 37
- Busiest year
- 20095 freeze watches
- Average year
- 3over 13 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.
- Burke County19
- Dunn County19
- Mercer County19
- Mountrail County19
- Bottineau County18
- Divide County18
- Hettinger County18
- Rolette County18
- Stark County18
- Williams County18
- McHenry County17
- Pierce County17
- Renville County17
- Sheridan County17
- Burleigh County16
- Grant County16
- Kidder County16
- McKenzie County16
- Oliver County16
- Stutsman County16
- Adams County15
- Billings County15
- Foster County15
- Logan County15
- Wells County15
- Bowman County14
- Emmons County14
- McIntosh County14
- Slope County14
- Golden Valley County13
- LaMoure County12
- Walsh County12
- Dickey County11
- Cavalier County11
- Towner County11
- Benson County10
- Ramsey County10
- Eddy County9
- Nelson County8
- Grand Forks County7
The latest freeze watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 1:35 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | FGF | Grand Forks, Pembina, Steele, Traill, Walsh | 13 hr |
| Sep 4, 1:51 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burke, Divide, Dunn and 10 more | 24 hr |
| May 16, 3:20 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | FGF | Cavalier, Towner | 11 hr |
| May 16, 3:10 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Divide and 11 more | 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.