Alert archive / Texas / El Paso County
Weather alerts in El Paso County, Texas, 2010
84 weather alerts in 2010, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
El Paso County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2010. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 84
- Warnings
- 47
- Watches
- 16
- Advisories
- 19
- Busiest month
- July18 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 6, 20107 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
El Paso County, 2010
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 21 | 5 | 76% | 13 | 62% | 26 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 9 | 2 | 78% | 4 | 50% | 10 min |
Each office's whole area, 2010
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS El Paso, TX: tornado warnings | 2 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| NWS El Paso, TX: severe thunderstorm warnings | 85 | 11 | 87% | 25 | 60% | 19 min |
| NWS El Paso, TX: flash flood warnings | 56 | 3 | 95% | 8 | 38% | 13 min |
An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.
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.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 7:11 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | 5 hr |
| Mar 25, 7:12 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | 6 hr |
| Mar 25, 1:31 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | 34 hr |
| Mar 29, 7:43 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | 23 hr |
| Mar 30, 7:09 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | 31 hr |
| Mar 30, 7:09 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | 14 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:59 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | 16 hr |
| Mar 31, 7:04 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | 25 hr |
| Apr 1, 7:36 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | 12 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:12 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | 17 hr |
| Apr 4, 7:07 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | 38 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:14 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | 24 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:58 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | 31 hr |
| Apr 12, 3:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 2:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 3:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | 84 min |
| Apr 26, 1:09 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | 24 hr |
| Apr 27, 12:47 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | 25 hr |
| Apr 27, 12:47 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | 32 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:11 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | 32 hr |
| May 1, 12:50 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | 18 hr |
| May 2, 6:56 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | 13 hr |
| May 5, 7:17 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | 7 hr |
| May 5, 1:57 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | 31 hr |
| May 8, 8:50 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | 4 hr |
| May 8, 12:58 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | 34 hr |
| May 9, 6:42 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | 25 hr |
| May 10, 7:25 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | 14 hr |
| May 10, 1:36 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | 30 hr |
| May 12, 7:10 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | 13 hr |
| May 21, 1:47 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | 24 hr |
| May 21, 1:47 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | 30 hr |
| May 22, 2:13 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | 31 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 47 min |
| Jun 6, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 22 min |
| Jun 6, 5:31 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 119 min |
| Jun 28, 7:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 57 min |
| Jun 28, 8:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 10:01 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 119 min |
| Jul 11, 10:19 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 116 min |
| Jul 11, 11:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | 96 min |
| Jul 16, 2:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 35 min |
| Jul 16, 2:31 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | 119 min |
| Jul 16, 2:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 39 min |
| Jul 16, 3:07 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | 78 min |
| Jul 21, 3:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 38 min |
| Jul 22, 5:49 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 56 min |
| Jul 23, 5:18 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 117 min |
| Jul 24, 2:22 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 7:43 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 2 hr |
| Jul 25, 7:56 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 2 hr |
| Jul 26, 12:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | 114 min |
| Jul 28, 2:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 26 min |
| Jul 28, 3:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 23 min |
| Jul 29, 4:34 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | 79 min |
| Jul 31, 3:40 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 3 hr |
| Jul 31, 4:34 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | 56 min |
| Aug 11, 3:30 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 2 hr |
| Aug 12, 5:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 23 min |
| Aug 13, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 32 min |
| Aug 13, 4:33 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 117 min |
| Aug 13, 4:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 37 min |
| Aug 21, 3:28 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:34 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 116 min |
| Aug 23, 6:14 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 106 min |
| Aug 29, 7:03 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 117 min |
| Sep 13, 3:14 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | 91 min |
| Sep 15, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 30 min |
| Sep 16, 2:52 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:35 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | 55 min |
| Sep 22, 7:35 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 115 min |
| Sep 23, 1:26 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 64 min |
| Sep 24, 7:17 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | 118 min |
| Oct 20, 4:58 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 62 min |
| Oct 20, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 43 min |
| Oct 20, 5:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Oct 20, 6:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | 66 min |
| Oct 20, 9:25 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 65 min |
| Nov 26, 1:47 PM MST | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | 17 hr |
| Nov 27, 6:42 AM MST | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | 36 hr |
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 | 21 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 9 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 19 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 17 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 15 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.