Weather alerts in Texas, 2012

8,449 weather alerts in 2012, 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 8,449
Warnings: 3,500
Watches: 393
Advisories: 1,769
Busiest month: May1,339 alerts
Busiest day: March 20, 2012225 alerts

Over time

By month

The alerts

8,449 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	2,059
Tornado Warning	271
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	105
Tornado Watch	34
Mesoscale Discussion	447
Special Weather Statement	2,319
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	39
Flash Flood Warning	281
River Flood Warning	259
Flash Flood Watch	39
Flood Watch	5
Areal Flood Advisory	848
Winter
Blizzard Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	8
Winter Storm Watch	5
Freezing Rain Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	37
Heat
Heat Advisory	34
Cold
Freeze Warning	51
Hard Freeze Warning	6
Freeze Watch	12
Hard Freeze Watch	1
Frost Advisory	12
Wind Chill Advisory	3
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	2
High Wind Warning	66
High Wind Watch	43
Blowing Dust Advisory	17
Lake Wind Advisory	60
Wind Advisory	198
Fire
Red Flag Warning	167
Fire Weather Watch	138
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	205
Freezing Fog Advisory	2
Tropical
Tropical Storm Watch	2
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Advisory	12
High Surf Advisory	3
Coastal Flood Statement	7
Rip Current Statement	14
Marine
Gale Warning	18
Special Marine Warning	272
Gale Watch	9
Low Water Advisory	8
Marine Dense Fog Advisory	58
Small Craft Advisory	197
Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	8
Small Craft Advisory for Winds	66

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 2011 2013

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.