Alert archive / Tornado Watches

Tornado Watches in the United States, 2010

286 tornado watches in 2010. 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.

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Tornado Watches
286
Busiest month
June50 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 24, 201014 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.

5 more states

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 24, 201014tornado watches
  2. October 26, 201011tornado watches
  3. May 1, 20109tornado watches
  4. December 31, 20108tornado watches
  5. April 23, 20108tornado watches
  6. October 27, 20107tornado watches
  7. May 2, 20107tornado watches
  8. June 6, 20107tornado watches
  9. November 30, 20105tornado watches
  10. January 21, 20105tornado watches
  11. March 11, 20105tornado watches
  12. April 25, 20105tornado watches
  13. June 17, 20105tornado watches
  14. July 14, 20105tornado watches
  15. October 25, 20104tornado watches

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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.