Alert archive / Tornado Watches / 2021
Tornado Watches in the United States, December 2021
18 tornado watches in December 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.
- Tornado Watches
- 18
- Busiest day
- December 11, 20219 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.
- Texas36
- Alabama33
- Mississippi30
- Florida30
- Georgia29
- Arkansas24
- Louisiana21
- Oklahoma20
- Tennessee20
- Missouri18
- Illinois15
- Kansas14
- North Carolina14
- Indiana11
- South Carolina10
- Iowa10
- Kentucky10
- Nebraska9
- Virginia8
- Minnesota8
- Colorado8
- Wisconsin7
- Maryland6
- Pennsylvania4
- South Dakota4
- New Mexico4
- Ohio3
- Michigan3
- New Jersey3
- District of Columbia3
- Wyoming2
- West Virginia2
- North Dakota2
- Delaware2
- Montana1
- Massachusetts1
- New York1
- Connecticut1
- Rhode Island1
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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.