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Flash Flood Warnings in Hidalgo County, Texas, 2020

24 flash flood warnings in 2020. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.

Hidalgo County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Flash Flood Warnings
24
Busiest month
July19 flash flood warnings
Busiest day
July 26, 202015 flash flood warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

7 of 24 flash flood warnings covering Hidalgo County in 2020 had a flash flood report inside them; 7 of 9 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 90 minutes after it went out.

Hidalgo County, 2020

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Flash flood warnings24771%978%90 min

Each office's whole area, 2020

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Brownsville, TX: flash flood warnings34974%1788%97 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 8, 11:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBRO3 hr
May 16, 8:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningBRO54 min
May 26, 3:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningBRO115 min
Jul 25, 8:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBRO14 hr
Jul 25, 10:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBRO7 hr
Jul 26, 12:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningBRO5 hr
Jul 26, 1:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningBRO2 hr
Jul 26, 3:13 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningBRO7 hr
Jul 26, 4:17 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningBRO6 hr
Jul 26, 5:48 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threatBRO13 hr
Jul 26, 6:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningBRO5 hr
Jul 26, 6:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningBRO4 hr
Jul 26, 10:04 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threatBRO9 hr
Jul 26, 10:14 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatBRO6 hr
Jul 26, 10:44 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatBRO4 hr
Jul 26, 2:16 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatBRO9 hr
Jul 26, 5:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBRO5 hr
Jul 26, 6:58 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatBRO5 hr
Jul 26, 11:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBRO94 min
Jul 27, 6:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBRO4 hr
Jul 27, 7:03 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatBRO3 hr
Jul 27, 7:04 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatBRO3 hr
Aug 1, 8:01 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatBRO3 hr
Aug 1, 8:23 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatBRO3 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.