Alert archive / Winter Storm Watches

Winter Storm Watches in the United States, 2025

626 winter storm watches in 2025. 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
626
Busiest month
January155 winter storm watches
Busiest day
February 10, 202523 winter storm 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.

11 more states

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. February 10, 202523winter storm watches
  2. November 27, 202517winter storm watches
  3. January 2, 202517winter storm watches
  4. March 3, 202516winter storm watches
  5. January 29, 202513winter storm watches
  6. February 9, 202513winter storm watches
  7. March 17, 202513winter storm watches
  8. February 6, 202512winter storm watches
  9. February 12, 202512winter storm watches
  10. February 17, 202512winter storm watches
  11. December 8, 202511winter storm watches
  12. December 24, 202511winter storm watches
  13. January 8, 202511winter storm watches
  14. January 18, 202511winter storm watches
  15. January 19, 202511winter 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.