Excessive Heat Watches in Texas
46 excessive heat watches 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
Excessive Heat Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Excessive Heat Watches
- 46
- Busiest year
- 202322 excessive heat watches
- Average year
- 4over 12 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.
- Hardin County9
- Tyler County9
- Hidalgo County8
- Starr County7
- Jasper County7
- Newton County7
- Kenedy County6
- Brooks County5
- Willacy County5
- Randall County5
- El Paso County5
- Collin County4
- Dallas County4
- Denton County4
- Ellis County4
- Falls County4
- Fannin County4
- Grayson County4
- Hill County4
- Hunt County4
- Johnson County4
- Kaufman County4
- Limestone County4
- McLennan County4
- Navarro County4
- Parker County4
- Rockwall County4
- Tarrant County4
- Cameron County4
- Hudspeth County4
- Jefferson County4
- Jim Wells County4
- Kleberg County4
- Nueces County4
- Orange County4
- San Patricio County4
- Anderson County3
- Delta County3
- Freestone County3
- Henderson County3
117 more counties
- Hopkins County3
- Lamar County3
- Leon County3
- Milam County3
- Rains County3
- Robertson County3
- Van Zandt County3
- Bell County3
- Bosque County3
- Cooke County3
- Hood County3
- Montague County3
- Somervell County3
- Wise County3
- La Salle County3
- Live Oak County3
- McMullen County3
- Austin County3
- Colorado County3
- Grimes County3
- Montgomery County3
- Polk County3
- San Jacinto County3
- Trinity County3
- Walker County3
- Waller County3
- Washington County3
- Archer County2
- Baylor County2
- Clay County2
- Wichita County2
- Wilbarger County2
- Comanche County2
- Coryell County2
- Eastland County2
- Erath County2
- Hamilton County2
- Jack County2
- Lampasas County2
- Mills County2
- Palo Pinto County2
- Stephens County2
- Young County2
- Brewster County2
- Culberson County2
- Jeff Davis County2
- Presidio County2
- Reeves County2
- Zapata County2
- Webb County2
- Bee County2
- Brazoria County2
- Brazos County2
- Burleson County2
- Calhoun County2
- Fort Bend County2
- Galveston County2
- Harris County2
- Houston County2
- Jackson County2
- Liberty County2
- Madison County2
- Matagorda County2
- Refugio County2
- Victoria County2
- Wharton County2
- Foard County1
- Hardeman County1
- Knox County1
- Andrews County1
- Borden County1
- Crane County1
- Dawson County1
- Ector County1
- Gaines County1
- Glasscock County1
- Howard County1
- Loving County1
- Martin County1
- Midland County1
- Mitchell County1
- Pecos County1
- Reagan County1
- Scurry County1
- Terrell County1
- Upton County1
- Ward County1
- Winkler County1
- Armstrong County1
- Briscoe County1
- Carson County1
- Childress County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Cottle County1
- Donley County1
- Gray County1
- Hall County1
- Hansford County1
- Hemphill County1
- Hutchinson County1
- King County1
- Lipscomb County1
- Motley County1
- Ochiltree County1
- Roberts County1
- Stonewall County1
- Wheeler County1
- Chambers County1
- Cochran County1
- Duval County1
- Goliad County1
- Hockley County1
- Lubbock County1
- Lynn County1
- Terry County1
- Yoakum County1
- Aransas 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.