Weather alerts in Texas, 2006

5,092 weather alerts in 2006, 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 2006. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 5,092
Warnings: 3,433
Watches: 376
Advisories: 504
Busiest month: May1,289 alerts
Busiest day: May 6, 2006173 alerts

Over time

By month

The alerts

5,092 alerts are too many to list on one page. Narrow it to a product above, to a month in the chart, or to a county.

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	2,163
Tornado Warning	282
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	89
Tornado Watch	50
Mesoscale Discussion	407
Special Weather Statement	244
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning	512
Flash Flood Watch	68
Flood Watch	22
Winter
Blizzard Warning	1
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	10
Winter Storm Watch	13
Freezing Rain Advisory	12
Sleet Advisory	1
Snow Advisory	12
Winter Weather Advisory	23
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	1
Excessive Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	26
Cold
Freeze Warning	41
Freeze Watch	7
Frost Advisory	10
Wind Chill Advisory	1
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	1
High Wind Warning	61
High Wind Watch	40
Blowing Dust Advisory	4
Lake Wind Advisory	75
Wind Advisory	181
Fire
Red Flag Warning	135
Fire Weather Watch	86
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	155
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	2
Coastal Flood Advisory	4
Coastal Flood Statement	5
Marine
Special Marine Warning	222
Marine Weather Statement	123

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

214 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 2005 2007

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.