Alert archive / Tornado Watches

Tornado Watches in the United States, 2013

174 tornado watches in 2013. 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
174
Busiest month
May45 tornado watches
Busiest day
January 30, 201312 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. January 30, 201312tornado watches
  2. April 18, 20139tornado watches
  3. May 19, 20138tornado watches
  4. November 17, 20137tornado watches
  5. April 11, 20136tornado watches
  6. May 20, 20136tornado watches
  7. May 29, 20136tornado watches
  8. May 30, 20136tornado watches
  9. December 21, 20135tornado watches
  10. January 29, 20135tornado watches
  11. February 10, 20135tornado watches
  12. May 21, 20135tornado watches
  13. April 12, 20134tornado watches
  14. April 17, 20134tornado watches
  15. May 31, 20134tornado 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.