Alert archive / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in the United States, January 1997
564 severe thunderstorm warnings in January 1997. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by state
Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 564
- Busiest day
- January 24, 1997145 severe thunderstorm warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
By state
Every state and territory, with the alerts that covered any part of it. Each state’s page lists every one of them.
- Texas2,101
- Kansas899
- Georgia797
- Oklahoma790
- Alabama721
- Mississippi720
- Tennessee717
- Florida637
- South Dakota595
- Nebraska592
- Arkansas587
- Louisiana504
- Missouri483
- Minnesota455
- North Carolina444
- Colorado417
- Kentucky415
- Illinois378
- Montana378
- Ohio373
- Arizona367
- New Mexico330
- North Dakota321
- Iowa312
- Wisconsin308
- Pennsylvania306
- South Carolina299
- Michigan250
- New York234
- Indiana219
- Virginia213
- Idaho176
- West Virginia145
- Wyoming143
- California127
- Utah124
- Oregon102
- Maryland82
- New Jersey68
- Nevada65
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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. Rebuilt daily.