Alert archive / Tornado Watches

Tornado Watches in the United States, 2025

197 tornado watches in 2025. 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
197
Busiest month
April59 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 15, 202510 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 15, 202510tornado watches
  2. April 2, 202510tornado watches
  3. May 20, 20259tornado watches
  4. April 5, 20258tornado watches
  5. March 16, 20257tornado watches
  6. May 16, 20257tornado watches
  7. May 19, 20256tornado watches
  8. March 4, 20255tornado watches
  9. March 30, 20255tornado watches
  10. April 6, 20255tornado watches
  11. April 20, 20255tornado watches
  12. February 16, 20254tornado watches
  13. April 3, 20254tornado watches
  14. April 4, 20254tornado watches
  15. April 28, 20254tornado 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.