Dust Storm Warnings in Texas
166 dust storm 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 dust storm warnings reaches back to 2005.
Dust Storm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Dust Storm Warnings
- 166
- Busiest year
- 202579 dust storm warnings
- Average year
- 11over 15 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 County40
- Hudspeth County24
- Martin County19
- Reeves County19
- Ward County18
- Pecos County17
- Ector County16
- Midland County16
- Crane County15
- Andrews County15
- Upton County14
- Lubbock County13
- Howard County13
- Loving County12
- Winkler County12
- Culberson County12
- Hockley County11
- Lynn County10
- Terry County10
- Dawson County10
- Crosby County9
- Garza County9
- Hale County9
- Coke County9
- Carson County8
- Tom Green County8
- Mitchell County8
- Glasscock County8
- Randall County7
- Yoakum County7
- Runnels County7
- Borden County7
- Sterling County7
- Brewster County7
- Jeff Davis County7
- Reagan County7
- Moore County6
- Potter County6
- Cochran County6
- Floyd County6
47 more counties
- Lamb County6
- Swisher County6
- Hansford County6
- Gaines County6
- Terrell County6
- Hutchinson County5
- Armstrong County5
- Deaf Smith County5
- Oldham County5
- Bailey County5
- Castro County5
- Parmer County5
- Ochiltree County5
- Sherman County5
- Irion County5
- Gray County4
- Roberts County4
- Jones County4
- Nolan County4
- Dallam County4
- Scurry County4
- Presidio County4
- Donley County3
- Hemphill County3
- Fisher County3
- Haskell County3
- Taylor County3
- Hartley County3
- Briscoe County3
- Coleman County3
- Concho County3
- Collingsworth County2
- Wheeler County2
- Callahan County2
- Shackelford County2
- Throckmorton County2
- Dickens County2
- Motley County2
- McCulloch County2
- Crockett County2
- Childress County1
- Hall County1
- Lipscomb County1
- Kent County1
- Brown County1
- Mason County1
- San Saba County1
The latest dust storm warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 10:41 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | MAF | Culberson, Loving, Pecos, Reeves, Upton, Ward and 1 more | 94 min |
| Jul 5, 9:11 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock and 9 more | 94 min |
| Jul 5, 8:24 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | SJT | Coke, Coleman, Concho, Irion, Runnels, Sterling and 1 more | 66 min |
| May 18, 5:15 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | AMA | Randall | 2 hr |
| May 18, 3:21 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | AMA | Randall | 114 min |
| May 15, 7:03 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 27 min |
| May 15, 6:55 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 35 min |
| May 15, 5:19 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 26 min |
| May 15, 5:15 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 30 min |
| May 15, 4:51 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 24 min |
| Mar 15, 2:04 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Howard, Martin and 6 more | 116 min |
| Mar 15, 12:06 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Donley | 114 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.