Weather alerts in Texas, 2011

6,166 weather alerts in 2011, 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 6,166
Warnings: 2,815
Watches: 629
Advisories: 1,370
Busiest month: April1,301 alerts
Busiest day: April 25, 2011195 alerts

Over time

By month

The alerts

6,166 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	1,661
Tornado Warning	262
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	73
Tornado Watch	38
Mesoscale Discussion	327
Special Weather Statement	994
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	3
Flash Flood Warning	51
River Flood Warning	25
Flash Flood Watch	11
Areal Flood Advisory	261
Winter
Blizzard Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	26
Blizzard Watch	1
Winter Storm Watch	28
Freezing Rain Advisory	6
Winter Weather Advisory	54
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	4
Excessive Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	65
Cold
Freeze Warning	67
Hard Freeze Warning	39
Wind Chill Warning	10
Freeze Watch	25
Hard Freeze Watch	8
Wind Chill Watch	3
Frost Advisory	12
Wind Chill Advisory	30
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	3
High Wind Warning	81
High Wind Watch	47
Blowing Dust Advisory	12
Lake Wind Advisory	67
Wind Advisory	280
Fire
Red Flag Warning	470
Fire Weather Watch	377
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	134
Dense Smoke Advisory	7
Freezing Fog Advisory	8
Tropical
Tropical Storm Warning	4
Tropical Storm Watch	4
Hurricane Local Statement	2
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Watch	2
Coastal Flood Advisory	11
High Surf Advisory	4
Coastal Flood Statement	8
Rip Current Statement	21
Marine
Gale Warning	14
Special Marine Warning	94
Gale Watch	11
Low Water Advisory	1
Marine Dense Fog Advisory	45
Small Craft Advisory	268
Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	10
Small Craft Advisory for Winds	95

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 2010 2012

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.