Extreme Cold Warnings in Texas
32 extreme cold 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 extreme cold warnings reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Warnings
- 32
- Busiest year
- 202518 extreme cold warnings
- Average year
- 16over 2 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.
- Armstrong County4
- Carson County4
- Gray County4
- Potter County4
- Randall County4
- Austin County3
- Bailey County3
- Bandera County3
- Bee County3
- Blanco County3
- Brazos County3
- Briscoe County3
- Brooks County3
- Burleson County3
- Burnet County3
- Cameron County3
- Castro County3
- Cochran County3
- Collingsworth County3
- Colorado County3
- Crosby County3
- Culberson County3
- Deaf Smith County3
- Donley County3
- Edwards County3
- Floyd County3
- Fort Bend County3
- Gillespie County3
- Goliad County3
- Grimes County3
- Hale County3
- Harris County3
- Hemphill County3
- Hidalgo County3
- Hockley County3
- Houston County3
- Hutchinson County3
- Jackson County3
- Jim Hogg County3
- Kendall County3
214 more counties
- Kenedy County3
- Kerr County3
- Lamb County3
- Lipscomb County3
- Live Oak County3
- Llano County3
- Lubbock County3
- McMullen County3
- Madison County3
- Montgomery County3
- Ochiltree County3
- Parmer County3
- Real County3
- Reeves County3
- Roberts County3
- Starr County3
- Swisher County3
- Terry County3
- Victoria County3
- Walker County3
- Waller County3
- Washington County3
- Wharton County3
- Wheeler County3
- Willacy County3
- Yoakum County3
- Zapata County3
- Anderson County2
- Andrews County2
- Archer County2
- Atascosa County2
- Bastrop County2
- Baylor County2
- Bell County2
- Bexar County2
- Borden County2
- Bosque County2
- Brazoria County2
- Brewster County2
- Brown County2
- Caldwell County2
- Calhoun County2
- Callahan County2
- Chambers County2
- Childress County2
- Clay County2
- Coke County2
- Coleman County2
- Collin County2
- Comal County2
- Comanche County2
- Concho County2
- Cooke County2
- Coryell County2
- Cottle County2
- Crane County2
- Crockett County2
- Dallam County2
- Dallas County2
- Dawson County2
- Delta County2
- Denton County2
- DeWitt County2
- Dickens County2
- Duval County2
- Eastland County2
- Ector County2
- Ellis County2
- Erath County2
- Falls County2
- Fannin County2
- Fayette County2
- Fisher County2
- Foard County2
- Freestone County2
- Gaines County2
- Galveston County2
- Garza County2
- Glasscock County2
- Gonzales County2
- Grayson County2
- Guadalupe County2
- Hall County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hansford County2
- Hardeman County2
- Hardin County2
- Hartley County2
- Haskell County2
- Hays County2
- Henderson County2
- Hill County2
- Hood County2
- Hopkins County2
- Howard County2
- Hunt County2
- Irion County2
- Jack County2
- Jasper County2
- Jeff Davis County2
- Jefferson County2
- Jim Wells County2
- Johnson County2
- Jones County2
- Karnes County2
- Kaufman County2
- Kent County2
- Kimble County2
- King County2
- Kinney County2
- Kleberg County2
- Knox County2
- Lamar County2
- Lampasas County2
- Lavaca County2
- Lee County2
- Leon County2
- Liberty County2
- Limestone County2
- Loving County2
- Lynn County2
- McCulloch County2
- McLennan County2
- Martin County2
- Mason County2
- Matagorda County2
- Medina County2
- Menard County2
- Midland County2
- Milam County2
- Mills County2
- Mitchell County2
- Montague County2
- Moore County2
- Motley County2
- Navarro County2
- Newton County2
- Nolan County2
- Nueces County2
- Oldham County2
- Orange County2
- Palo Pinto County2
- Parker County2
- Pecos County2
- Polk County2
- Presidio County2
- Rains County2
- Reagan County2
- Refugio County2
- Robertson County2
- Rockwall County2
- Runnels County2
- San Jacinto County2
- San Patricio County2
- San Saba County2
- Schleicher County2
- Scurry County2
- Shackelford County2
- Sherman County2
- Somervell County2
- Stephens County2
- Sterling County2
- Stonewall County2
- Sutton County2
- Tarrant County2
- Taylor County2
- Terrell County2
- Throckmorton County2
- Tom Green County2
- Travis County2
- Trinity County2
- Tyler County2
- Upton County2
- Uvalde County2
- Val Verde County2
- Van Zandt County2
- Ward County2
- Webb County2
- Wichita County2
- Wilbarger County2
- Williamson County2
- Wilson County2
- Winkler County2
- Wise County2
- Young County2
- El Paso County1
- Hudspeth County1
- Angelina County1
- Aransas County1
- Bowie County1
- Camp County1
- Cass County1
- Cherokee County1
- Dimmit County1
- Franklin County1
- Frio County1
- Gregg County1
- Harrison County1
- La Salle County1
- Marion County1
- Maverick County1
- Morris County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Panola County1
- Red River County1
- Rusk County1
- Sabine County1
- San Augustine County1
- Shelby County1
- Smith County1
- Titus County1
- Upshur County1
- Wood County1
- Zavala County1
The latest extreme cold warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 8:43 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 77 min |
| Jan 24, 1:31 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Potter and 2 more | 45 hr |
| Jan 24, 11:01 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 45 hr |
| Jan 23, 10:22 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler | 3 days |
| Jan 23, 1:00 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | HGX | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 17 more | 4 days |
| Jan 23, 12:23 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | SHV | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more | 4 days |
| Jan 23, 12:00 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 8 more | 47 hr |
| Jan 23, 11:25 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells and 9 more | 4 days |
| Jan 23, 1:54 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Culberson, Dawson, Ector and 15 more | 3 days |
| Jan 22, 7:23 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more | 5 days |
| Jan 22, 2:36 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FWD | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more | 5 days |
| Jan 22, 2:35 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | SJT | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 18 more | 4 days |
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.