Alert archive / Tornado Watches / 2023
Tornado Watches in the United States, March 2023
29 tornado watches in March 2023. 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
- 29
- Busiest day
- March 3, 20236 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.
- Texas39
- Mississippi38
- Alabama38
- Louisiana33
- Arkansas31
- Tennessee30
- Georgia27
- Florida22
- Kentucky21
- Oklahoma21
- Illinois19
- Indiana17
- Missouri16
- North Carolina14
- Kansas14
- Nebraska12
- Ohio11
- Iowa11
- Virginia7
- South Carolina6
- Colorado6
- West Virginia6
- Pennsylvania5
- Michigan5
- New York3
- New Mexico3
- Maryland3
- Wisconsin3
- Wyoming3
- South Dakota3
- Minnesota2
- New Jersey2
- Delaware2
- New Hampshire1
- Maine1
- Connecticut1
- Massachusetts1
- District of Columbia1
- Montana1
- North Dakota1
1 more states
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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.