Weather alerts in Ector County, Texas

3,746 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Ector County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,746
Warnings: 1,404
Watches: 661
Advisories: 836
Busiest year: 2025214 alerts
Average year: 91over 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	694
Tornado Warning	58
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	222
Tornado Watch	79
Mesoscale Discussion	600
Special Weather Statement	245
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	7
Flash Flood Warning	256
Flash Flood Watch	63
Flood Watch	10
Areal Flood Advisory	268
Winter
Ice Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	18
Winter Storm Watch	22
Freezing Rain Advisory	3
Snow Advisory	4
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	61
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	5
Excessive Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	71
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	28
Hard Freeze Warning	5
Wind Chill Warning	2
Extreme Cold Watch	3
Freeze Watch	21
Wind Chill Watch	2
Cold Weather Advisory	7
Wind Chill Advisory	6
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Warning	2
Dust Storm Warning	16
High Wind Warning	27
High Wind Watch	21
Blowing Dust Advisory	24
Dust Storm Advisory	44
Wind Advisory	207
Fire
Red Flag Warning	283
Fire Weather Watch	217
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	103
Freezing Fog Advisory	37

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 22, 2:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	3 hr
Sep 22, 2:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	26 min
Jul 16, 5:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	3 hr
Jul 16, 5:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	3 hr
Jul 16, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	33 min
Jul 16, 4:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	3 hr
Jul 16, 4:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	3 hr
Jul 5, 9:11 PM CDT	Dust Storm Warning	MAF	94 min
Jun 14, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	31 min
Jun 14, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	30 min
Jun 14, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	30 min
Jun 14, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	25 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.