Weather alerts in Texas, 2016

11,949 weather alerts in 2016, 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 11,949
Warnings: 4,469
Watches: 374
Advisories: 2,621
Busiest month: May2,835 alerts
Busiest day: April 18, 2016297 alerts

Over time

By month

The alerts

11,949 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	2,176
Tornado Warning	221
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	78
Tornado Watch	27
Mesoscale Discussion	388
Special Weather Statement	4,041
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	123
Flash Flood Warning	548
River Flood Warning	778
Flash Flood Watch	76
Flood Watch	10
Areal Flood Advisory	1,687
Hydrologic Statement	4
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	1
Winter Weather Advisory	19
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	4
Excessive Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	96
Cold
Freeze Warning	32
Hard Freeze Warning	8
Wind Chill Warning	1
Freeze Watch	13
Frost Advisory	8
Wind Chill Advisory	9
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	55
High Wind Watch	35
Blowing Dust Advisory	8
Lake Wind Advisory	44
Wind Advisory	161
Fire
Red Flag Warning	148
Fire Weather Watch	111
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	194
Freezing Fog Advisory	5
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	7
Coastal Flood Watch	3
Coastal Flood Advisory	45
Beach Hazards Statement	5
Coastal Flood Statement	13
Rip Current Statement	34
Marine
Gale Warning	34
Special Marine Warning	333
Gale Watch	20
Low Water Advisory	6
Marine Dense Fog Advisory	67
Small Craft Advisory	212
Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	7
Small Craft Advisory for Winds	53

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 2015 2017

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.