Alert archive / Tornado Watches / 2011
Tornado Watches in the United States, August 2011
12 tornado watches in August 2011. 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.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- August 27, 20114 tornado watches
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.
- Mississippi59
- Arkansas52
- Alabama51
- Missouri51
- Louisiana47
- Tennessee44
- Kentucky39
- North Carolina38
- Texas38
- Oklahoma37
- Georgia35
- Florida34
- Illinois33
- Indiana32
- Kansas30
- Nebraska28
- Virginia26
- Iowa25
- South Carolina22
- Minnesota21
- South Dakota20
- North Dakota19
- Ohio18
- Maryland16
- West Virginia14
- Pennsylvania12
- Wisconsin11
- Michigan9
- District of Columbia8
- New York7
- Montana6
- Colorado6
- New Jersey6
- Wyoming5
- Connecticut4
- Delaware4
- Maine3
- Rhode Island3
- Massachusetts2
- New Hampshire2
1 more states
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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.