Alert archive / Tornado Watches / 2018
Tornado Watches in the United States, January 2018
2 tornado watches in January 2018. 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
- 2
- Busiest day
- January 21, 20181 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.
- Arkansas24
- Texas22
- Louisiana20
- Mississippi19
- North Carolina17
- Missouri17
- Georgia16
- Alabama16
- Florida15
- Kansas15
- Iowa14
- Tennessee13
- Oklahoma13
- Kentucky11
- Nebraska11
- Minnesota10
- South Carolina8
- Virginia7
- Illinois7
- Indiana7
- South Dakota7
- North Dakota7
- Wisconsin6
- Colorado5
- New York4
- Ohio4
- Wyoming4
- Maryland4
- Michigan3
- Pennsylvania3
- Connecticut3
- New Jersey2
- Massachusetts2
- Vermont2
- Montana1
- West Virginia1
- Delaware1
- District of Columbia1
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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.