Blizzard Warnings in Texas
26 blizzard warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of blizzard warnings reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 26
- Busiest year
- 20094 blizzard warnings
- Average year
- 2over 12 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dallam County9
- Hartley County9
- Sherman County8
- Deaf Smith County7
- Hansford County7
- Lipscomb County7
- Moore County7
- Ochiltree County7
- Oldham County7
- Armstrong County6
- Carson County6
- Gray County6
- Hutchinson County6
- Potter County6
- Randall County6
- Hemphill County5
- Roberts County5
- Culberson County5
- Collingsworth County4
- Donley County4
- Wheeler County4
- Hardeman County3
- Castro County3
- Parmer County3
- Clay County2
- Wichita County2
- Wilbarger County2
- Bailey County2
- Briscoe County2
- Childress County2
- Cochran County2
- Cottle County2
- Crosby County2
- Dickens County2
- Floyd County2
- Hale County2
- Hall County2
- Hockley County2
- King County2
- Lamb County2
25 more counties
- Lubbock County2
- Motley County2
- Swisher County2
- Jefferson County2
- Orange County2
- Archer County1
- Baylor County1
- Callahan County1
- Foard County1
- Haskell County1
- Jones County1
- Knox County1
- Shackelford County1
- Throckmorton County1
- Andrews County1
- Borden County1
- Dawson County1
- Gaines County1
- Garza County1
- Kent County1
- Lynn County1
- Martin County1
- Stonewall County1
- Terry County1
- Yoakum County1
The latest blizzard warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 12:16 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | MAF | Culberson | 36 hr |
| Jan 21, 4:15 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 8 hr |
| Jan 21, 3:40 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 11 min |
Nearby
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.