Dust Storm Advisories in Texas
174 dust storm advisories 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 dust storm advisories reaches back to 2005.
Dust Storm Advisories by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Dust Storm Advisories
- 174
- Busiest year
- 202536 dust storm advisories
- Average year
- 19over 9 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.
- El Paso County75
- Martin County49
- Andrews County46
- Ector County44
- Midland County44
- Howard County39
- Upton County37
- Glasscock County36
- Crane County33
- Gaines County29
- Reagan County28
- Winkler County27
- Reeves County25
- Ward County25
- Pecos County24
- Borden County23
- Hudspeth County22
- Dawson County22
- Mitchell County20
- Jeff Davis County16
- Loving County16
- Scurry County16
- Brewster County12
- Culberson County11
- Presidio County9
- Terrell County6
- Potter County3
- Randall County3
- Irion County3
- Schleicher County3
- Tom Green County3
- Nolan County2
- Taylor County2
- Armstrong County2
- Carson County2
- Crosby County2
- Hale County2
- Hockley County2
- Lamb County2
- Lubbock County2
31 more counties
- Coke County2
- Concho County2
- Kimble County2
- Menard County2
- Sterling County2
- Dickens County1
- Fisher County1
- Kent County1
- King County1
- Stonewall County1
- Floyd County1
- Oldham County1
- Bailey County1
- Callahan County1
- Castro County1
- Coleman County1
- Crockett County1
- Parmer County1
- Runnels County1
- Sutton County1
- Swisher County1
- Cochran County1
- Dallam County1
- Garza County1
- Gray County1
- Hartley County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Lynn County1
- Roberts County1
- Terry County1
- Yoakum County1
The latest dust storm advisories
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 6:53 PM CDT | Dust Storm Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Crane, Ector, Martin, Midland, Upton | 52 min |
| Aug 31, 8:15 PM CDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 90 min |
| Aug 31, 7:41 PM CDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | El Paso | 94 min |
| Aug 13, 6:44 PM CDT | Dust Storm Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Crane, Ector, Martin, Midland, Upton and 1 more | 91 min |
| Aug 13, 5:43 PM CDT | Dust Storm Advisory | MAF | Crane, Ector, Loving, Reeves, Ward, Winkler | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 7:41 PM CDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 2 hr |
| Jul 27, 9:38 PM CDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 67 min |
| Jul 15, 5:59 PM CDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | El Paso | 71 min |
| Jul 5, 11:56 PM CDT | Dust Storm Advisory | MAF | Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio, Reeves | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 9:01 PM CDT | Dust Storm Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 9 more | 89 min |
| Jun 28, 7:56 PM CDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | El Paso | 49 min |
| Jun 28, 7:07 PM CDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | El Paso | 38 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.