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Flash Flood Warnings in Liberty County, Texas

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

Liberty County and its neighbors

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Flash Flood Warnings
252
Busiest year
201527 flash flood warnings
Average year
8over 31 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 86% of flash flood reports in Liberty County fell inside a flash flood warning issued on average 112 minutes before, and 61% of the flash flood warnings had no report inside them.

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20086267%10%
20095260%0
20126267%250%10 min
20147186%1100%193 min
2015271256%11100%53 min
201618572%10%
201722768%1100%287 min
2018010%
201916944%5100%287 min
202010100%0
20213233%2100%26 min
20222150%2100%44 min
202414750%2100%75 min
202510100%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.

The latest flash flood warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 3, 8:54 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX4 hr
Sep 2, 10:05 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatHGX3 hr
Sep 2, 9:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX3 hr
Sep 2, 6:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX3 hr
Sep 2, 9:23 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatHGX4 hr
Sep 2, 6:53 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatHGX3 hr
Sep 2, 5:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX4 hr
Sep 2, 3:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX3 hr
Sep 2, 2:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX4 hr
Jun 21, 8:33 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX72 min
Jun 17, 7:34 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX3 hr
Jun 16, 11:08 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGX2 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.