Alert archive / Tornado Watches

Tornado Watches in the United States, 2021

177 tornado watches in 2021. 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
177
Busiest month
March36 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 17, 202111 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. March 17, 202111tornado watches
  2. December 11, 20219tornado watches
  3. March 18, 20217tornado watches
  4. March 25, 20214tornado watches
  5. March 26, 20214tornado watches
  6. April 24, 20214tornado watches
  7. April 28, 20214tornado watches
  8. July 7, 20214tornado watches
  9. August 17, 20214tornado watches
  10. September 1, 20214tornado watches
  11. October 11, 20213tornado watches
  12. October 24, 20213tornado watches
  13. October 27, 20213tornado watches
  14. October 28, 20213tornado watches
  15. March 13, 20213tornado 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.