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Flash Flood Warnings in Brewster County, Texas, 2008

10 flash flood warnings in 2008. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.

Brewster County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Flash Flood Warnings
10
Busiest month
September5 flash flood warnings
Busiest day
July 25, 20083 flash flood warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

1 of 10 flash flood warnings covering Brewster County in 2008 had a flash flood report inside them.

Brewster County, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Flash flood warnings10190%0

Each office's whole area, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX: flash flood warnings1011387%1984%26 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 25, 9:42 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAF4 hr
Jul 25, 10:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAF4 hr
Jul 25, 5:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAF3 hr
Aug 18, 8:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAF118 min
Aug 18, 10:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAF110 min
Sep 8, 4:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAF3 hr
Sep 9, 3:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAF4 hr
Sep 10, 8:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAF78 min
Sep 11, 11:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAF5 hr
Sep 12, 3:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAF5 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.