Alert archive / Texas / 1988
Weather alerts in Texas, August 1988
45 weather alerts in August 1988, 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 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 45
- Warnings
- 45
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 11, 19888 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 2, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Madison | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 54 min |
| Aug 2, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath, Hamilton | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 54 min |
| Aug 4, 9:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 64 min |
| Aug 5, 2:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 4 hr |
| Aug 6, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 55 min |
| Aug 9, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 59 min |
| Aug 10, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Wharton | 50 min |
| Aug 10, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Jackson | 64 min |
| Aug 11, 12:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 28 min |
| Aug 11, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 38 min |
| Aug 11, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 34 min |
| Aug 11, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, McLennan | 51 min |
| Aug 11, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 27 min |
| Aug 11, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 34 min |
| Aug 11, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 49 min |
| Aug 12, 1:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Fannin | 41 min |
| Aug 16, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 54 min |
| Aug 16, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 67 min |
| Aug 17, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 40 min |
| Aug 18, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | San Augustine | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 43 min |
| Aug 19, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 55 min |
| Aug 19, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 29 min |
| Aug 20, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 62 min |
| Aug 20, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 54 min |
| Aug 20, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 35 min |
| Aug 21, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 35 min |
| Aug 21, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 45 min |
| Aug 22, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 42 min |
| Aug 23, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Lamar | 44 min |
| Aug 23, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Red River | 55 min |
| Aug 23, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie | 80 min |
| Aug 23, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Red River | 30 min |
| Aug 23, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie | 90 min |
| Aug 23, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass | 58 min |
| Aug 24, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 56 min |
| Aug 24, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Robertson | 58 min |
| Aug 24, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burleson | 50 min |
| Aug 25, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Live Oak | 60 min |
| Aug 25, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 59 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 | 40 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Limestone County3
- Val Verde County2
- Jefferson County2
- Falls County2
- McLennan County2
- Cooke County2
- Tarrant County2
- Houston County2
- Red River County2
- Bowie County2
- Madison County1
- Wise County1
- Comanche County1
- Erath County1
- Hamilton County1
- Lubbock County1
- El Paso County1
- Orange County1
- Ector County1
- Midland County1
- Wharton County1
- Jackson County1
- Freestone County1
- Hill County1
- Fannin County1
- Ellis County1
- Johnson County1
- San Augustine County1
- Van Zandt County1
- Parker County1
- Dallas County1
- Anderson County1
- Delta County1
- Lamar County1
- Cass County1
- Robertson County1
- Burleson County1
- Jim Wells County1
- Live Oak County1
- Duval County1
Nearby
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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.