Alert archive / Texas

Weather alerts in Hutchinson County, Texas

4,378 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Hutchinson County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
4,378
Warnings
1,483
Watches
908
Advisories
684
Busiest year
2023256 alerts
Average year
107over 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, 81% of tornado reports in Hutchinson County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 15 minutes before, and 70% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20082150%1100%12 min
201011282%475%30 min
201210100%0
20155260%1100%28 min
2016110%1100%2 min
201810100%0
20199456%786%12 min
202010100%0
202110100%0
202340100%0
20243233%5100%9 min
20254175%20%
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008261831%17100%25 min
2009422736%1669%20 min
2010362822%2857%24 min
20116517%475%15 min
2012312423%16100%26 min
2013201050%2572%30 min
2014201525%875%15 min
2015201240%667%11 min
2016221627%2396%31 min
2017453229%3097%25 min
2018312035%1894%33 min
2019643939%3868%34 min
2020291452%1663%43 min
2021321941%2055%28 min
2022422443%3070%23 min
2023482646%4080%26 min
2024401465%1979%37 min
2025471764%2475%26 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810100%0
2009010%
20104325%0
20122150%2100%109 min
2013010%
2014110%0
2015330%560%37 min
20165260%425%15 min
2018110%4100%6 min
2019220%2100%64 min
202320100%0
202540100%0

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 30, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA59 min
Aug 25, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA62 min
Aug 25, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA58 min
Aug 16, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA38 min
Aug 16, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA45 min
Jul 27, 12:00 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningAMA22 hr
Jul 4, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA54 min
Jul 4, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA58 min
Jul 4, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA61 min
Jun 29, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA46 min
Jun 26, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA93 min
Jun 26, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA45 min

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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.