Alert archive / Winter Storm Warnings

Winter Storm Warnings in the United States, 2016

551 winter storm warnings in 2016. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of winter storm warnings reaches back to 2005.

Winter Storm Warnings by state

Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.

AKMEVTNHWAIDMTNDMNILWIMINYRIMAORNVWYSDIAINOHPANJCTCAUTCONEMOKYWVVAMDDEAZNMKSARTNNCSCDCOKLAMSALGAHITXFLPR
Winter Storm Warnings
551
Busiest month
December173 winter storm warnings
Busiest day
January 21, 201623 winter storm warnings

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.

8 more states

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 21, 201623winter storm warnings
  2. December 15, 201619winter storm warnings
  3. March 22, 201615winter storm warnings
  4. December 10, 201614winter storm warnings
  5. December 11, 201612winter storm warnings
  6. January 31, 201612winter storm warnings
  7. February 1, 201612winter storm warnings
  8. December 14, 20169winter storm warnings
  9. December 23, 20169winter storm warnings
  10. December 28, 20169winter storm warnings
  11. February 14, 20169winter storm warnings
  12. December 7, 20168winter storm warnings
  13. January 28, 20168winter storm warnings
  14. February 15, 20168winter storm warnings
  15. February 16, 20168winter storm warnings

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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.