Alert archive / Texas / 1987
Weather alerts in Texas, August 1987
40 weather alerts in August 1987, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1987. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 40
- Warnings
- 40
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 5, 19879 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Camp, Upshur | 60 min |
| Aug 5, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Marion | 75 min |
| Aug 5, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 35 min |
| Aug 5, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 44 min |
| Aug 5, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 46 min |
| Aug 5, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 46 min |
| Aug 5, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 35 min |
| Aug 5, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Parker | 65 min |
| Aug 5, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 48 min |
| Aug 5, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Shelby | 75 min |
| Aug 6, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 38 min |
| Aug 9, 6:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Brewster | 5 hr |
| Aug 10, 12:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 38 min |
| Aug 10, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 50 min |
| Aug 10, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 47 min |
| Aug 11, 12:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 48 min |
| Aug 11, 2:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Brown | 39 min |
| Aug 11, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 58 min |
| Aug 11, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 39 min |
| Aug 11, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 64 min |
| Aug 12, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree | 2 hr |
| Aug 12, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Morris, Titus | 51 min |
| Aug 13, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Clay | 65 min |
| Aug 14, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 63 min |
| Aug 14, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 59 min |
| Aug 15, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 56 min |
| Aug 16, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Knox | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Knox | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Haskell | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stonewall | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Grayson | 65 min |
| Aug 18, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 54 min |
| Aug 18, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 56 min |
| Aug 18, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 61 min |
| Aug 26, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 67 min |
| Aug 27, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 61 min |
| Aug 30, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 42 min |
| Aug 30, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 60 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 38 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ellis County3
- Parker County2
- Collin County2
- Tarrant County2
- Grayson County2
- Cooke County2
- Lynn County2
- Knox County2
- Roberts County2
- Camp County1
- Upshur County1
- Cass County1
- Marion County1
- Dallas County1
- Denton County1
- Johnson County1
- Hood County1
- Shelby County1
- Brewster County1
- Wise County1
- Hamilton County1
- Brown County1
- Comanche County1
- Hansford County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Ochiltree County1
- Morris County1
- Titus County1
- Clay County1
- Howard County1
- Sterling County1
- Midland County1
- Garza County1
- Haskell County1
- Stonewall County1
- Gray County1
- Lubbock County1
- Reeves County1
- Coke County1
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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.