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Flash Flood Warnings in Orange County, Texas, 2024

25 flash flood warnings in 2024. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.

Orange County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Flash Flood Warnings
25
Busiest month
May12 flash flood warnings
Busiest day
May 2, 20245 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.

18 of 25 flash flood warnings covering Orange County in 2024 had a flash flood report inside them; 12 of 16 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 112 minutes after it went out.

Orange County, 2024

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Flash flood warnings251828%1675%112 min

Each office's whole area, 2024

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Lake Charles, LA: flash flood warnings1528345%26991%135 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
Jan 24, 2:40 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCH7 hr
Jan 24, 2:54 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCH5 hr
Jan 24, 4:23 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCH6 hr
Jan 24, 10:09 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCH3 hr
Jan 25, 4:06 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCH3 hr
Apr 29, 4:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCH5 hr
May 2, 8:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCH3 hr
May 2, 8:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCH3 hr
May 2, 10:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCH98 min
May 2, 11:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCH5 hr
May 2, 11:43 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatLCH7 hr
May 3, 7:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCH3 hr
May 3, 2:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCH3 hr
May 16, 7:44 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatLCH3 hr
May 16, 7:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCH2 hr
May 28, 2:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCH3 hr
May 29, 9:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCH3 hr
May 29, 10:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCH3 hr
Jun 1, 1:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCH4 hr
Jun 11, 7:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCH3 hr
Jun 11, 9:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCH111 min
Jul 8, 10:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCH7 hr
Jul 21, 1:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCH3 hr
Dec 26, 6:41 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCH3 hr
Dec 26, 7:58 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCH3 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.