Alert archive / Texas

Weather alerts in Hopkins County, Texas

3,170 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Hopkins County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,170
Warnings
817
Watches
620
Advisories
592
Busiest year
2008218 alerts
Average year
77over 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

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 70% of tornado reports in Hopkins County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 19 minutes before, and 79% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810100%0
200910100%0
201050100%0
201110100%0
20125340%4100%26 min
20142150%1100%9 min
201540100%0
201610100%0
201720100%0
2018110%1100%9 min
201920100%0
2020110%0
20226267%250%13 min
202330100%20%
202410100%0
202530100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200819668%757%12 min
200914843%2100%18 min
201010550%1283%41 min
2011231439%1794%27 min
201216850%6100%28 min
201340100%10%
20148450%633%33 min
20152150%1100%52 min
20167271%3100%38 min
201714564%40%
20184250%3100%50 min
2019171041%15100%27 min
20205260%0
202113562%2100%16 min
202212742%5100%37 min
202319858%475%38 min
202414657%9100%31 min
20256350%650%27 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20085180%1100%75 min
20096350%3100%104 min
2011110%0
2012110%0
201420100%0
20155180%1100%34 min
201610100%0
20173167%580%151 min
2019110%10%
20243167%1100%24 min
20252150%250%20 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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.

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 22, 8:39 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningFWD3 days
Aug 17, 12:45 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningFWD5 days
Aug 8, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWD42 min
Jul 21, 12:38 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningFWD43 hr
Jul 12, 6:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWD3 hr
Jul 8, 7:49 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWD2 hr
Jul 6, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWD37 min
Jun 2, 4:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWD3 hr
May 23, 5:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWD47 min
May 23, 4:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWD59 min
May 8, 11:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWD23 min
Apr 29, 11:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWD52 min

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.