Alert archive / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in the United States, May 1997
94 severe thunderstorm watches in May 1997. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by state
Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 94
- Busiest day
- May 3, 199710 severe thunderstorm watches
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.
- Texas93
- Oklahoma52
- Kansas48
- Mississippi40
- Missouri39
- Iowa39
- Minnesota37
- North Carolina36
- Alabama35
- Georgia35
- South Dakota35
- Arkansas33
- Louisiana33
- Tennessee32
- Illinois30
- Kentucky30
- Wisconsin30
- Nebraska30
- Virginia28
- Indiana27
- Pennsylvania27
- Ohio26
- Michigan26
- West Virginia25
- South Carolina23
- North Dakota22
- Florida20
- New York19
- Maryland18
- Montana17
- New Jersey14
- New Mexico12
- Delaware9
- Colorado8
- Massachusetts7
- Wyoming7
- Connecticut7
- Idaho6
- New Hampshire6
- Arizona4
6 more states
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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.