Alert archive / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in the United States, February 2003
314 severe thunderstorm warnings in February 2003. 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
- 314
- Busiest day
- February 22, 2003200 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.
- Texas2,100
- Missouri1,107
- Mississippi1,033
- Kansas1,029
- Oklahoma1,010
- Tennessee1,002
- Arkansas852
- Nebraska843
- Alabama794
- Ohio732
- Georgia715
- Illinois708
- North Carolina666
- Kentucky595
- South Dakota574
- Iowa570
- Indiana537
- Florida528
- Michigan486
- South Carolina469
- Virginia440
- Louisiana422
- Minnesota403
- Pennsylvania365
- Colorado347
- Arizona289
- North Dakota265
- Montana261
- New Mexico238
- West Virginia203
- Wisconsin198
- Maryland190
- New York156
- Wyoming110
- California104
- New Jersey98
- Idaho79
- Nevada53
- Maine52
- Oregon45
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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.