Extreme Heat Warnings in Texas
38 extreme 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 extreme heat warnings reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Heat Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Heat Warnings
- 38
- Busiest year
- 202634 extreme heat warnings
- Average year
- 19over 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.
- Randall County6
- Clay County5
- Wilbarger County5
- Bastrop County4
- Bowie County4
- Travis County4
- Williamson County4
- Hardeman County4
- Wichita County4
- Caldwell County3
- Cass County3
- Gonzales County3
- Harrison County3
- Marion County3
- Baylor County3
- Collin County3
- Cooke County3
- Dallas County3
- Delta County3
- Denton County3
- Ellis County3
- Erath County3
- Fannin County3
- Fayette County3
- Foard County3
- Grayson County3
- Hood County3
- Hopkins County3
- Hunt County3
- Jack County3
- Johnson County3
- Kaufman County3
- Knox County3
- Lamar County3
- Lavaca County3
- Lee County3
- Montague County3
- Palo Pinto County3
- Parker County3
- Rains County3
168 more counties
- Rockwall County3
- Somervell County3
- Stephens County3
- Tarrant County3
- Van Zandt County3
- Wise County3
- Young County3
- Atascosa County2
- Bexar County2
- Burnet County2
- Comal County2
- Dimmit County2
- Frio County2
- Guadalupe County2
- Hays County2
- Karnes County2
- Llano County2
- Maverick County2
- Medina County2
- Uvalde County2
- Wilson County2
- Zavala County2
- Anderson County2
- Angelina County2
- Archer County2
- Austin County2
- Bell County2
- Bosque County2
- Brazoria County2
- Brazos County2
- Briscoe County2
- Brooks County2
- Burleson County2
- Callahan County2
- Cameron County2
- Chambers County2
- Cherokee County2
- Childress County2
- Collingsworth County2
- Colorado County2
- Coryell County2
- Cottle County2
- Eastland County2
- Falls County2
- Fisher County2
- Fort Bend County2
- Freestone County2
- Galveston County2
- Gregg County2
- Grimes County2
- Hall County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Harris County2
- Haskell County2
- Henderson County2
- Hidalgo County2
- Hill County2
- Houston County2
- Jackson County2
- Jasper County2
- Jefferson County2
- Jim Hogg County2
- Jones County2
- Kenedy County2
- Leon County2
- Liberty County2
- Limestone County2
- McLennan County2
- Madison County2
- Matagorda County2
- Milam County2
- Montgomery County2
- Motley County2
- Nacogdoches County2
- Navarro County2
- Newton County2
- Nolan County2
- Orange County2
- Panola County2
- Polk County2
- Red River County2
- Robertson County2
- Rusk County2
- Sabine County2
- San Augustine County2
- San Jacinto County2
- Shackelford County2
- Shelby County2
- Smith County2
- Starr County2
- Taylor County2
- Throckmorton County2
- Trinity County2
- Tyler County2
- Upshur County2
- Walker County2
- Waller County2
- Washington County2
- Wharton County2
- Willacy County2
- Wood County2
- Zapata County2
- Bandera County1
- Blanco County1
- Edwards County1
- Gillespie County1
- Kendall County1
- Kerr County1
- Kinney County1
- Real County1
- Val Verde County1
- Aransas County1
- Bee County1
- Brewster County1
- Brown County1
- Calhoun County1
- Camp County1
- Coke County1
- Coleman County1
- Comanche County1
- Concho County1
- DeWitt County1
- Dickens County1
- Donley County1
- Duval County1
- Franklin County1
- Garza County1
- Glasscock County1
- Goliad County1
- Hansford County1
- Hemphill County1
- Howard County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Irion County1
- Jim Wells County1
- Kent County1
- Kimble County1
- King County1
- Kleberg County1
- Lampasas County1
- La Salle County1
- Lipscomb County1
- Live Oak County1
- McCulloch County1
- McMullen County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Mills County1
- Mitchell County1
- Moore County1
- Morris County1
- Nueces County1
- Ochiltree County1
- Reagan County1
- Refugio County1
- Roberts County1
- Runnels County1
- San Patricio County1
- San Saba County1
- Sherman County1
- Sterling County1
- Stonewall County1
- Terrell County1
- Titus County1
- Tom Green County1
- Victoria County1
- Webb County1
The latest extreme heat warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 12:09 AM CDT | Extreme Heat Warning | OUN | Clay, Wichita, Wilbarger | 19 hr |
| Aug 23, 12:47 PM CDT | Extreme Heat Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more | 31 hr |
| Aug 23, 11:59 AM CDT | Extreme Heat Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Dickens, Garza, Hall and 4 more | 32 hr |
| Aug 23, 11:15 AM CDT | Extreme Heat Warning | SJT | Callahan, Fisher, Haskell, Jones, Nolan, Shackelford and 2 more | 32 hr |
| Aug 22, 11:06 PM CDT | Extreme Heat Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca and 4 more | 44 hr |
| Aug 22, 11:02 PM CDT | Extreme Heat Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more | 21 hr |
| Aug 22, 10:48 PM CDT | Extreme Heat Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Donley, Randall | 21 hr |
| Aug 22, 8:39 PM CDT | Extreme Heat Warning | FWD | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more | 3 days |
| Aug 22, 8:02 PM CDT | Extreme Heat Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley | 24 hr |
| Aug 21, 12:29 AM CDT | Extreme Heat Warning | SHV | Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Nacogdoches and 8 more | 20 hr |
| Aug 20, 12:54 PM CDT | Extreme Heat Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler | 31 hr |
| Aug 20, 12:25 AM CDT | Extreme Heat Warning | SHV | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Morris, Red River and 1 more | 20 hr |
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.