Alert archive / Special Weather Statements / 2023
Special Weather Statements in the United States, August 2023
8,003 special weather statements in August 2023. 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
- 8,003
- Busiest day
- August 12, 2023523 special weather statements
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.
- Florida4,759
- Texas4,749
- Georgia3,377
- Kansas2,880
- Alabama2,341
- Oklahoma2,309
- Colorado2,252
- North Carolina1,907
- Mississippi1,742
- Nebraska1,691
- Louisiana1,643
- Arkansas1,621
- Montana1,554
- Kentucky1,400
- New York1,389
- Pennsylvania1,238
- Tennessee1,210
- Wyoming1,160
- Ohio1,075
- Virginia1,051
- New Mexico1,042
- California1,035
- Idaho1,029
- South Carolina994
- Minnesota910
- Missouri822
- Indiana815
- Wisconsin801
- Nevada736
- West Virginia663
- Utah639
- Illinois596
- Arizona573
- South Dakota572
- Michigan559
- Oregon375
- North Dakota365
- Iowa357
- Washington319
- Massachusetts306
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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.