Alert archive / Tornado Watches

Tornado Watches in the United States, 2005

275 tornado watches in 2005. 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
275
Busiest month
June76 tornado watches
Busiest day
November 15, 20059 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. November 15, 20059tornado watches
  2. March 22, 20059tornado watches
  3. June 5, 20059tornado watches
  4. November 28, 20058tornado watches
  5. March 27, 20058tornado watches
  6. April 6, 20057tornado watches
  7. September 24, 20057tornado watches
  8. June 1, 20056tornado watches
  9. June 4, 20056tornado watches
  10. June 7, 20056tornado watches
  11. June 13, 20056tornado watches
  12. April 11, 20055tornado watches
  13. June 6, 20055tornado watches
  14. June 12, 20055tornado watches
  15. July 6, 20055tornado 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.