Alert archive / Winter Storm Watches

Winter Storm Watches in the United States, 2026

306 winter storm watches in 2026. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The last few weeks are still filling in as offices finish their follow-ups. 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.

AKMEVTNHWAIDMTNDMNILWIMINYRIMAORNVWYSDIAINOHPANJCTCAUTCONEMOKYWVVAMDDEAZNMKSARTNNCSCDCOKLAMSALGAHITXFLPR
Winter Storm Watches
306
Busiest month
January115 winter storm watches
Busiest day
January 21, 202634 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 21, 202634winter storm watches
  2. January 22, 202619winter storm watches
  3. January 29, 202613winter storm watches
  4. March 13, 202612winter storm watches
  5. February 20, 202611winter storm watches
  6. March 12, 202610winter storm watches
  7. March 31, 202610winter storm watches
  8. February 15, 20269winter storm watches
  9. March 11, 20269winter storm watches
  10. January 20, 20268winter storm watches
  11. February 21, 20268winter storm watches
  12. April 1, 20268winter storm watches
  13. February 14, 20267winter storm watches
  14. January 7, 20266winter storm watches
  15. February 13, 20266winter 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.