Weather alerts in Texas, 2010

7,250 weather alerts in 2010, 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 2010. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 7,250
Warnings: 3,320
Watches: 424
Advisories: 2,293
Busiest month: May1,306 alerts
Busiest day: May 14, 2010164 alerts

Over time

By month

The alerts

7,250 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	1,530
Tornado Warning	315
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	51
Tornado Watch	44
Mesoscale Discussion	296
Special Weather Statement	895
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	61
Flash Flood Warning	451
Hydrologic Warning	1
River Flood Warning	346
Flash Flood Watch	70
Flood Watch	10
Areal Flood Advisory	1,343
River Flood Advisory	3
Winter
Ice Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	28
Winter Storm Watch	20
Freezing Rain Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	55
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	2
Heat Advisory	58
Cold
Freeze Warning	70
Hard Freeze Warning	25
Freeze Watch	23
Hard Freeze Watch	2
Wind Chill Watch	1
Frost Advisory	20
Wind Chill Advisory	14
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	48
High Wind Watch	29
Blowing Dust Advisory	1
Lake Wind Advisory	56
Wind Advisory	177
Fire
Red Flag Warning	198
Fire Weather Watch	134
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	119
Freezing Fog Advisory	33
Tropical
Hurricane Warning	3
Inland Hurricane Warning	1
Inland Tropical Storm Warning	6
Tropical Storm Warning	13
Hurricane Watch	5
Inland Hurricane Watch	1
Inland Tropical Storm Watch	4
Tropical Storm Watch	3
Hurricane Local Statement	2
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	10
Coastal Flood Watch	8
Coastal Flood Advisory	20
High Surf Advisory	4
Coastal Flood Statement	13
Marine
Gale Warning	22
Special Marine Warning	188
Gale Watch	17
Marine Dense Fog Advisory	40
Small Craft Advisory	282
Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	11
Small Craft Advisory for Winds	56
Marine Weather Statement	7

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 2009 2011

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.