Alert archive / Texas

Weather alerts in Brown County, Texas

3,613 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Brown County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
3,613
Warnings
1,131
Watches
600
Advisories
727
Busiest year
2023248 alerts
Average year
88over 41 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

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 76% of tornado reports in Brown County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 18 minutes before, and 67% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008110%1100%6 min
200950100%10%
201150100%0
20137443%4100%28 min
20156517%475%17 min
2016220%1100%24 min
20178450%580%11 min
2019010%
202010100%0
202240100%0
202380100%0
202410100%0
202510100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20088275%4100%29 min
200923770%12100%22 min
20105260%2100%12 min
2011241250%1362%23 min
201211555%1060%23 min
2013342235%2361%17 min
2014161319%1493%22 min
2015351946%2273%23 min
2016211243%1486%29 min
201714471%850%26 min
201811373%560%40 min
201929679%757%19 min
20207614%825%15 min
202114564%1392%22 min
202215753%967%33 min
2023533436%3992%29 min
2024271256%1883%23 min
202525772%888%30 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810100%0
20093167%250%22 min
201020100%0
201120100%10%
20134175%1100%41 min
201511736%888%65 min
2016220%1100%88 min
20173167%0
201820100%0
20192150%0
202110100%0
20222150%1100%9 min
20237186%1100%59 min
20245340%3100%45 min
20258188%0

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 28, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJT45 min
Jul 16, 12:46 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSJT119 min
Jul 5, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJT59 min
Jul 5, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJT54 min
Jul 5, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJT56 min
Jun 19, 8:32 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSJT3 hr
Jun 19, 7:24 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSJT3 hr
Jun 17, 1:04 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningSJT33 hr
Jun 14, 6:56 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSJT3 hr
Jun 6, 7:01 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSJT119 min
Jun 6, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJT27 min
May 24, 10:11 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSJT101 min

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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.