Small Craft Advisories in the United States
119,294 small craft advisories since 1986. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of small craft advisories reaches back to 2005.
Small Craft Advisories by state
Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.
- Small Craft Advisories
- 119,294
- Busiest year
- 20246,729 small craft advisories
- Average year
- 5,422over 22 years on file
- Busiest day
- February 14, 201742 small craft advisories
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By state
Every state and territory, with the alerts that covered any part of it. Each state’s page lists every one of them.
- Alaska43,325
- California9,521
- Michigan8,542
- Virginia6,466
- Florida5,095
- Washington4,550
- Texas4,320
- New York4,213
- Wisconsin3,740
- Maine3,522
- North Carolina2,810
- Oregon2,720
- Massachusetts2,524
- Illinois2,151
- Louisiana2,073
- New Jersey1,985
- Minnesota1,944
- Indiana1,529
- Ohio1,514
- South Carolina1,231
- Alabama1,049
- Hawaii996
- Puerto Rico915
- Georgia503
- Guam310
- Northern Mariana Islands302
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. Rebuilt daily.