Weather alerts in Texas, 2015

14,300 weather alerts in 2015, 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 14,300
Warnings: 5,936
Watches: 458
Advisories: 2,950
Busiest month: May4,950 alerts
Busiest day: May 25, 2015279 alerts

Over time

By month

The alerts

14,300 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	2,400
Tornado Warning	551
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	73
Tornado Watch	79
Mesoscale Discussion	515
Special Weather Statement	4,391
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	298
Flash Flood Warning	1,060
River Flood Warning	1,061
Flash Flood Watch	175
Flood Watch	8
River Flood Watch	3
Areal Flood Advisory	2,071
Winter
Blizzard Warning	4
Ice Storm Warning	6
Winter Storm Warning	29
Blizzard Watch	3
Winter Storm Watch	27
Freezing Rain Advisory	9
Winter Weather Advisory	82
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	2
Heat Advisory	46
Cold
Freeze Warning	26
Hard Freeze Warning	7
Freeze Watch	9
Hard Freeze Watch	2
Frost Advisory	11
Wind Chill Advisory	12
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	30
High Wind Watch	23
Lake Wind Advisory	29
Wind Advisory	132
Fire
Red Flag Warning	38
Fire Weather Watch	37
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	186
Freezing Fog Advisory	15
Tropical
Tropical Storm Warning	5
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	4
Coastal Flood Watch	2
Coastal Flood Advisory	36
Beach Hazards Statement	4
Coastal Flood Statement	12
Rip Current Statement	34
Marine
Gale Warning	29
Special Marine Warning	386
Gale Watch	17
Low Water Advisory	2
Marine Dense Fog Advisory	70
Small Craft Advisory	200
Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	7
Small Craft Advisory for Winds	42

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 2014 2016

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.