Alert archive / Winter Storm Watches

Winter Storm Watches in the United States, 2024

617 winter storm watches in 2024. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.

Winter Storm Watches by state

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

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Winter Storm Watches
617
Busiest month
January189 winter storm watches
Busiest day
January 10, 202424 winter storm watches

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By state

Every state and territory, with the alerts that covered any part of it. Each state’s page lists every one of them.

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The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 10, 202424winter storm watches
  2. January 4, 202415winter storm watches
  3. January 7, 202415winter storm watches
  4. January 8, 202414winter storm watches
  5. December 3, 202413winter storm watches
  6. January 6, 202413winter storm watches
  7. January 11, 202413winter storm watches
  8. April 1, 202413winter storm watches
  9. January 5, 202412winter storm watches
  10. March 22, 202411winter storm watches
  11. February 24, 202410winter storm watches
  12. January 12, 20249winter storm watches
  13. January 17, 20249winter storm watches
  14. February 23, 20249winter storm watches
  15. March 23, 20249winter storm 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.