Alert archive / North Dakota / High Wind Watches
High Wind Watches in North Dakota, 2026
3 high wind watches in 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 3
- Busiest month
- January1 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- January 14, 20261 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 1:50 AM CST | High Wind Watch | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 26 more | 25 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:34 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 26 more | 24 hr |
| May 13, 1:39 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | BIS | Burke, Divide, McKenzie, Mountrail, Renville, Ward and 1 more | 12 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Burke County3
- Divide County3
- McKenzie County3
- Mountrail County3
- Renville County3
- Williams County3
- Adams County2
- Billings County2
- Bottineau County2
- Bowman County2
- Burleigh County2
- Dickey County2
- Dunn County2
- Emmons County2
- Foster County2
- Golden Valley County2
- Grant County2
- Hettinger County2
- Kidder County2
- LaMoure County2
- Logan County2
- McHenry County2
- McIntosh County2
- Mercer County2
- Oliver County2
- Pierce County2
- Rolette County2
- Sheridan County2
- Slope County2
- Stark County2
- Stutsman County2
- Wells County2
- Ward County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.