Excessive Heat Warnings in Texas
368 excessive heat 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 excessive heat warnings reaches back to 2005.
Excessive Heat Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Excessive Heat Warnings
- 368
- Busiest year
- 2023209 excessive heat warnings
- Average year
- 26over 14 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.
- Kleberg County57
- Nueces County50
- Jim Wells County41
- Tyler County37
- Shelby County37
- Jasper County37
- Newton County36
- San Patricio County36
- Bastrop County35
- Atascosa County34
- Travis County34
- Hardin County33
- Angelina County33
- Cass County33
- Harrison County33
- Marion County33
- Nacogdoches County33
- Panola County33
- Sabine County33
- San Augustine County33
- Caldwell County33
- Williamson County33
- Wilson County33
- Gregg County32
- Burnet County32
- Guadalupe County32
- Lee County32
- Llano County32
- Cherokee County31
- Rusk County31
- Smith County31
- Wood County31
- Frio County31
- Fayette County31
- Gonzales County31
- Upshur County30
- Bexar County30
- Callahan County30
- Comal County30
- Hays County30
193 more counties
- Shackelford County30
- Taylor County30
- Throckmorton County30
- Bowie County29
- Haskell County29
- Jones County29
- Camp County28
- Franklin County28
- Morris County28
- Titus County28
- Coke County28
- Sterling County28
- Tom Green County28
- Brown County28
- Coleman County28
- Nolan County28
- San Saba County28
- Clay County27
- Fisher County27
- Medina County27
- Runnels County27
- Karnes County27
- Red River County26
- Irion County26
- Concho County26
- McCulloch County26
- Lavaca County26
- Live Oak County25
- Archer County24
- Wichita County24
- Mason County24
- Jefferson County24
- Orange County24
- DeWitt County23
- McMullen County22
- Kaufman County21
- Kimble County21
- Menard County21
- La Salle County21
- Baylor County20
- Wilbarger County20
- Collin County20
- Dallas County20
- Denton County20
- Tarrant County20
- Hood County20
- Johnson County20
- McLennan County20
- Palo Pinto County20
- Somervell County20
- Randall County20
- Fannin County19
- Grayson County19
- Hunt County19
- Rockwall County19
- Van Zandt County19
- Ellis County19
- Jack County19
- Parker County19
- Bee County19
- Delta County18
- Hopkins County18
- Lamar County18
- Rains County18
- Bell County18
- Cooke County18
- Henderson County18
- Hill County18
- Stephens County18
- Wise County18
- Young County18
- Harris County18
- Hidalgo County18
- Bosque County18
- Duval County18
- Foard County17
- Knox County17
- Falls County17
- Limestone County17
- Milam County17
- Montague County17
- Navarro County17
- Robertson County17
- Hardeman County16
- Anderson County16
- Freestone County16
- Leon County16
- Coryell County16
- Lampasas County16
- Uvalde County16
- Brewster County16
- Webb County16
- Liberty County16
- Fort Bend County15
- Galveston County15
- Wharton County15
- Comanche County15
- Eastland County15
- Erath County15
- Hamilton County15
- Kenedy County15
- Austin County15
- Colorado County15
- Waller County15
- Brazoria County14
- Starr County14
- Mills County14
- Willacy County14
- Washington County14
- Montgomery County14
- Brooks County13
- Cameron County13
- Grimes County13
- Matagorda County12
- Crockett County12
- Schleicher County12
- Sutton County12
- Culberson County12
- Jeff Davis County12
- Brazos County12
- Burleson County12
- Houston County12
- Trinity County12
- Walker County12
- Jackson County11
- Madison County11
- Polk County11
- San Jacinto County11
- Chambers County10
- Presidio County10
- Refugio County10
- Mitchell County9
- Calhoun County9
- Goliad County9
- Victoria County9
- Reeves County8
- Terrell County7
- Crane County7
- Blanco County7
- Kendall County6
- Scurry County6
- Winkler County6
- Dimmit County6
- El Paso County6
- Zapata County6
- Ector County5
- Martin County5
- Midland County5
- Upton County5
- Bandera County5
- Edwards County5
- Gillespie County5
- Kerr County5
- Real County5
- Borden County5
- Howard County5
- Pecos County5
- Maverick County5
- Zavala County5
- Jim Hogg County5
- Andrews County4
- Gaines County4
- Dawson County4
- Glasscock County4
- Reagan County4
- Kinney County4
- Val Verde County4
- Hudspeth County4
- Terry County3
- Yoakum County3
- Loving County3
- Ward County3
- Bailey County2
- Cochran County2
- Hockley County2
- Lamb County2
- Garza County2
- Lynn County2
- Aransas County2
- Childress County2
- Cottle County2
- Dickens County2
- Hall County2
- Kent County2
- King County2
- Motley County2
- Stonewall County2
- Armstrong County1
- Crosby County1
- Floyd County1
- Hale County1
- Lubbock County1
- Collingsworth County1
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.