Alert archive / Tornado Watches

Tornado Watches in the United States, 2015

213 tornado watches in 2015. 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
213
Busiest month
May66 tornado watches
Busiest day
November 17, 20159 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.

2 more states

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. November 17, 20159tornado watches
  2. December 23, 20158tornado watches
  3. May 16, 20157tornado watches
  4. May 24, 20157tornado watches
  5. April 9, 20156tornado watches
  6. May 23, 20156tornado watches
  7. May 25, 20156tornado watches
  8. April 24, 20155tornado watches
  9. April 25, 20155tornado watches
  10. May 10, 20155tornado watches
  11. October 31, 20154tornado watches
  12. November 18, 20154tornado watches
  13. December 28, 20154tornado watches
  14. April 3, 20154tornado watches
  15. April 19, 20154tornado 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.