Alert archive / Texas / Gonzales County
Weather alerts in Gonzales County, Texas, 2013
101 weather alerts in 2013, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Gonzales County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 101
- Warnings
- 30
- Watches
- 16
- Advisories
- 28
- Busiest month
- April25 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 10, 20139 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Gonzales County, 2013
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 10 | 6 | 40% | 1 | 0% | |
| Flash flood warnings | 3 | 3 | 0% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2013
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX: tornado warnings | 10 | 0 | 100% | 2 | 0% | |
| NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX: severe thunderstorm warnings | 152 | 93 | 39% | 212 | 68% | 20 min |
| NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX: flash flood warnings | 55 | 45 | 18% | 96 | 78% | 74 min |
An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.
Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 3:50 AM CST | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | 32 hr |
| Jan 20, 4:12 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | EWX | 5 hr |
| Jan 28, 4:03 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | EWX | 50 hr |
| Jan 29, 3:45 AM CST | Wind Advisory | EWX | 18 hr |
| Feb 23, 9:42 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | EWX | 8 hr |
| Feb 24, 4:34 AM CST | Wind Advisory | EWX | 41 hr |
| Feb 24, 5:15 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | EWX | 40 hr |
| Mar 2, 9:03 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | EWX | 19 hr |
| Mar 3, 4:09 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | EWX | 52 hr |
| Mar 4, 2:59 PM CST | Wind Advisory | EWX | 24 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:33 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 57 min |
| Mar 10, 1:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | 27 min |
| Mar 20, 12:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | 38 min |
| Mar 23, 9:36 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | EWX | 14 hr |
| Mar 23, 9:54 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | EWX | 20 hr |
| Mar 25, 3:27 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | EWX | 18 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 60 min |
| Mar 31, 1:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 4:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | 49 min |
| Apr 2, 5:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Apr 2, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | 41 min |
| Apr 2, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 7:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | 116 min |
| Apr 2, 7:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Apr 2, 7:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 12:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | 59 min |
| Apr 3, 12:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | 66 min |
| Apr 3, 4:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | 56 min |
| Apr 3, 6:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | 48 min |
| Apr 27, 3:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 4:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | 44 min |
| Apr 27, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Apr 27, 5:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | 102 min |
| Apr 27, 6:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 27, 7:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | 44 min |
| Apr 27, 9:12 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 10:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 27, 11:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 4:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | 54 min |
| Apr 29, 4:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | 2 hr |
| May 1, 3:45 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | EWX | 32 hr |
| May 2, 2:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | 66 min |
| May 2, 3:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | 66 min |
| May 9, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 9, 10:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 9, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | 51 min |
| May 9, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | 54 min |
| May 10, 8:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | 48 min |
| May 10, 8:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 32 min |
| May 10, 1:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | 42 min |
| May 10, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 10, 6:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 10, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | 46 min |
| May 24, 12:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 25, 9:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | 36 hr |
| May 25, 10:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | 6 hr |
| May 25, 10:59 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | 2 hr |
| May 25, 11:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | 3 hr |
| May 28, 4:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | 27 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 5:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 2:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | 41 min |
| Jul 15, 3:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | 24 hr |
| Jul 17, 1:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 1:01 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | EWX | 3 days |
| Sep 20, 2:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | 106 min |
| Sep 20, 4:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | 2 hr |
| Sep 20, 4:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | 117 min |
| Sep 20, 6:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | 104 min |
| Sep 20, 6:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | 108 min |
| Sep 29, 2:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | 5 hr |
| Sep 29, 3:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | 3 hr |
| Sep 29, 10:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | 105 min |
| Sep 29, 10:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | 10 hr |
| Sep 29, 1:19 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | 8 hr |
| Oct 1, 5:16 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | EWX | 5 hr |
| Oct 13, 4:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | 23 hr |
| Oct 13, 7:31 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | 119 min |
| Oct 13, 8:54 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | 14 hr |
| Oct 15, 3:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | 24 hr |
| Oct 30, 4:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | 32 hr |
| Oct 31, 1:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Oct 31, 2:08 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | 42 hr |
| Oct 31, 4:31 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | 5 hr |
| Oct 31, 5:05 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | 15 hr |
| Oct 31, 10:04 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | 58 hr |
| Oct 31, 10:32 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | 11 hr |
| Nov 18, 3:41 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | EWX | 6 hr |
| Nov 26, 4:05 AM CST | Freeze Warning | EWX | 31 hr |
| Nov 27, 10:44 AM CST | Freeze Warning | EWX | 22 hr |
| Dec 4, 6:19 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | EWX | 4 hr |
| Dec 4, 10:05 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | EWX | 55 min |
| Dec 4, 9:31 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | EWX | 8 hr |
| Dec 5, 5:59 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | EWX | 2 hr |
| Dec 7, 6:58 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | EWX | 11 hr |
| Dec 13, 7:11 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | EWX | 12 hr |
| Dec 21, 9:53 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 67 min |
| Dec 21, 10:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 10 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 6 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 12 |
| Special Weather Statement | 15 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
| River Flood Warning | 10 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 8 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 13 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 1 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 1 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 3 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 5 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 4 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 2 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 8 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.