Alert archive / Texas

Weather alerts in Galveston County, Texas

4,451 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Galveston County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
4,451
Warnings
1,275
Watches
459
Advisories
1,509
Busiest year
2017314 alerts
Average year
109over 41 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 product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 31, 10:10 AM CDTTropical Storm WarningHGX33 hr
Aug 28, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGX45 min
Aug 28, 1:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGX35 min
Jul 22, 9:58 PM CDTTropical Storm WarningHGX21 hr
Jul 22, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGX46 min
Jul 22, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatHGX50 min
Jul 21, 12:50 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningHGX31 hr
Jun 20, 7:16 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningHGX104 min
Jun 20, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGX41 min
Jun 20, 4:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX3 hr
Jun 20, 12:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX2 hr
Jun 18, 9:51 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningHGX10 hr

Nearby

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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. Rebuilt daily.