Special Weather Statements in the United States
743,866 special weather statements since 1986. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of special weather statements reaches back to 2006.
Special Weather Statements by state
Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.
- Special Weather Statements
- 743,866
- Busiest year
- 202355,155 special weather statements
- Average year
- 33,812over 22 years on file
- Busiest day
- June 30, 2015684 special weather statements
Over time
By year
Only statements with a storm outline are archived, which offices began using widely after 2006.
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.
- Texas61,562
- Florida53,791
- Georgia46,504
- North Carolina41,120
- Oklahoma31,637
- Kansas29,731
- Virginia27,811
- Alabama27,252
- Kentucky22,136
- Colorado22,124
- Montana21,160
- Mississippi20,701
- Nebraska19,855
- South Carolina19,263
- New York19,162
- Arkansas19,148
- Pennsylvania18,476
- Louisiana17,913
- Ohio17,704
- Tennessee17,115
- Wyoming16,502
- New Mexico15,229
- Minnesota14,497
- Indiana13,422
- Wisconsin12,877
- Missouri11,069
- West Virginia10,776
- Arizona10,726
- Michigan10,376
- Idaho9,798
- California9,770
- Illinois9,109
- South Dakota7,984
- Nevada7,634
- Iowa6,817
- North Dakota5,937
- Utah5,214
- New Jersey4,667
- Maryland4,579
- Maine4,234
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.