Alert archive / Winter Storm Watches / 2026
Winter Storm Watches in the United States, February 2026
77 winter storm watches in February 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.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 77
- Busiest day
- February 20, 202611 winter storm watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
By state
Every state and territory, with the alerts that covered any part of it. Each state’s page lists every one of them.
- Alaska49
- New York20
- California20
- Montana20
- Michigan18
- Minnesota18
- Pennsylvania15
- Wyoming15
- West Virginia14
- Wisconsin14
- Washington13
- North Carolina13
- Texas11
- Virginia11
- Oregon10
- North Dakota8
- Maryland8
- Maine8
- Ohio7
- Georgia7
- South Carolina7
- Indiana7
- Illinois7
- Massachusetts6
- New Mexico6
- Connecticut6
- Missouri6
- Hawaii5
- South Dakota5
- Idaho5
- Kentucky5
- Kansas5
- Nevada5
- Nebraska5
- Colorado5
- Arkansas5
- Iowa5
- Tennessee5
- New Jersey4
- Louisiana4
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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.