Alert archive / Tornado Watches

Tornado Watches in the United States, 1997

323 tornado watches in 1997. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of tornado watches reaches back to 1997.

Tornado Watches by state

Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.

AKMEVTNHWAIDMTNDMNILWIMINYRIMAORNVWYSDIAINOHPANJCTCAUTCONEMOKYWVVAMDDEAZNMKSARTNNCSCDCOKLAMSALGAHITXFLPR
Tornado Watches
323
Busiest month
June59 tornado watches
Busiest day
February 21, 199710 tornado watches

Over time

By month

By state

Every state and territory, with the alerts that covered any part of it. Each state’s page lists every one of them.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. February 21, 199710tornado watches
  2. October 25, 19978tornado watches
  3. October 26, 19978tornado watches
  4. March 2, 19978tornado watches
  5. April 23, 19978tornado watches
  6. May 2, 19978tornado watches
  7. May 27, 19978tornado watches
  8. May 26, 19977tornado watches
  9. July 2, 19977tornado watches
  10. February 20, 19976tornado watches
  11. April 5, 19976tornado watches
  12. April 22, 19976tornado watches
  13. May 28, 19976tornado watches
  14. June 22, 19976tornado watches
  15. October 12, 19975tornado watches

Nearby

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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.