Weather alerts in Texas, 2009

8,488 weather alerts in 2009, 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 8,488
Warnings: 4,554
Watches: 555
Advisories: 2,053
Busiest month: April1,578 alerts
Busiest day: April 17, 2009235 alerts

Over time

By month

The alerts

8,488 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	2,608
Tornado Warning	349
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	111
Tornado Watch	58
Mesoscale Discussion	460
Special Weather Statement	825
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	59
Flash Flood Warning	466
River Flood Warning	414
Flash Flood Watch	73
Flood Watch	6
Areal Flood Advisory	1,032
Winter
Blizzard Warning	4
Ice Storm Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	24
Blizzard Watch	1
Winter Storm Watch	20
Freezing Rain Advisory	11
Winter Weather Advisory	68
Heat
Heat Advisory	54
Cold
Freeze Warning	57
Hard Freeze Warning	3
Freeze Watch	17
Hard Freeze Watch	1
Frost Advisory	3
Wind Chill Advisory	1
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	2
High Wind Warning	76
High Wind Watch	39
Blowing Dust Advisory	8
Lake Wind Advisory	90
Wind Advisory	199
Fire
Red Flag Warning	273
Fire Weather Watch	222
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	163
Freezing Fog Advisory	14
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	2
Coastal Flood Watch	6
Coastal Flood Advisory	12
High Surf Advisory	1
Coastal Flood Statement	19
Marine
Gale Warning	10
Special Marine Warning	204
Gale Watch	1
Marine Dense Fog Advisory	32
Small Craft Advisory	305
Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	10
Small Craft Advisory for Winds	50
Marine Weather Statement	22

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 2008 2010

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.