Snow and Blowing Snow Advisories in the United States
893 snow and blowing snow advisories since 1986. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of snow and blowing snow advisories reaches back to 2005.
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisories by state
Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.
- Snow and Blowing Snow Advisories
- 893
- Busiest year
- 2008303 snow and blowing snow advisories
- Average year
- 223over 4 years on file
- Busiest day
- January 30, 200813 snow and blowing snow 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.
- Colorado238
- Montana119
- Wyoming70
- Michigan68
- Idaho62
- Utah58
- California55
- Nebraska49
- Kansas47
- Oregon41
- Iowa39
- Wisconsin27
- Washington27
- South Dakota26
- Minnesota22
- North Dakota19
- Pennsylvania18
- Nevada18
- Missouri17
- Illinois15
- Indiana13
- Ohio12
- New York12
- Arizona11
- Texas10
- Oklahoma8
- West Virginia7
- Vermont6
- New Mexico5
- Virginia5
- Alaska5
- New Jersey2
- Massachusetts2
- Connecticut2
- Maryland2
- Kentucky1
- North Carolina1
- Delaware1
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.