Weather alerts in Cameron County, Texas

3,530 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Cameron County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,530
Warnings: 915
Watches: 311
Advisories: 1,427
Busiest year: 2023286 alerts
Average year: 86over 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

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	350
Tornado Warning	91
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	52
Tornado Watch	19
Mesoscale Discussion	154
Special Weather Statement	474
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	39
Flash Flood Warning	201
River Flood Warning	2
Flash Flood Watch	58
Flood Watch	12
Areal Flood Advisory	525
River Flood Advisory	3
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	4
Winter Storm Watch	3
Winter Weather Advisory	8
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	13
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	4
Extreme Heat Watch	2
Heat Advisory	145
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	3
Freeze Warning	30
Hard Freeze Warning	7
Wind Chill Warning	8
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	16
Hard Freeze Watch	2
Wind Chill Watch	4
Cold Weather Advisory	6
Frost Advisory	1
Wind Chill Advisory	46
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	4
High Wind Watch	1
Wind Advisory	349
Fire
Red Flag Warning	143
Fire Weather Watch	128
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	243
Tropical
Inland Hurricane Warning	2
Inland Tropical Storm Warning	5
Tropical Storm Warning	8
Hurricane Watch	1
Inland Hurricane Watch	2
Storm Surge Watch	1
Tropical Storm Watch	3
Hurricane Local Statement	1
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	2
High Surf Warning	1
Coastal Flood Watch	1
Coastal Flood Advisory	52
High Surf Advisory	49
Coastal Flood Statement	90
Rip Current Statement	158

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 18, 8:10 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	BRO	23 hr
Jun 17, 7:52 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	BRO	24 hr
Jun 16, 4:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BRO	1 min
Jun 15, 7:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	3 hr
Jun 5, 5:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	2 hr
May 27, 11:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BRO	31 min
May 27, 11:36 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BRO	45 min
May 27, 9:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BRO	35 min
May 27, 9:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BRO	29 min
May 24, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	28 min
May 24, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	19 min
May 24, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	17 min

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. Rebuilt daily.