Alert archive / North Dakota / High Wind Watches
High Wind Watches in North Dakota, 2025
8 high wind watches in 2025. 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 high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- March4 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- March 8, 20252 high wind watches
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 2:48 PM CST | High Wind Watch | FGF | Barnes, Cass, Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson, Ransom and 4 more | 22 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:17 PM CST | High Wind Watch | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 26 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:33 PM CST | High Wind Watch | FGF | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 13, 3:00 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | FGF | Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, Griggs, Nelson, Ramsey and 2 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 13, 3:14 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | BIS | Dickey, Foster, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh and 2 more | 22 hr |
| Oct 19, 2:03 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Grant and 5 more | 13 hr |
| Dec 7, 2:03 PM CST | High Wind Watch | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 26 more | 24 hr |
| Dec 16, 4:29 AM CST | High Wind Watch | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dickey, Divide and 20 more | 22 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County4
- Billings County4
- Bowman County4
- Dickey County4
- Dunn County4
- Foster County4
- Golden Valley County4
- Grant County4
- Hettinger County4
- Kidder County4
- LaMoure County4
- Logan County4
- McIntosh County4
- McKenzie County4
- Slope County4
- Stark County4
- Stutsman County4
- Wells County4
- Williams County4
- Griggs County3
- Nelson County3
- Burleigh County3
- Divide County3
- Emmons County3
- Mercer County3
- Mountrail County3
- Oliver County3
- Sheridan County3
- Barnes County2
- Cass County2
- Grand Forks County2
- Ransom County2
- Richland County2
- Sargent County2
- Steele County2
- Traill County2
- Bottineau County2
- Burke County2
- McHenry County2
- Pierce County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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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.