Alert archive / Texas

Weather alerts in Pecos County, Texas

5,327 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Pecos County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
5,327
Warnings
2,613
Watches
621
Advisories
937
Busiest year
2019327 alerts
Average year
130over 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 Pecos County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 14 minutes before, and 84% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20085180%1100%21 min
20098188%0
2010150100%0
201160100%0
201260100%0
201320100%0
20143167%250%3 min
201514471%875%17 min
201630100%10%
201921195%540%24 min
2020010%
20216183%3100%9 min
20228450%3100%6 min
20238363%5100%13 min
20249367%771%16 min
202550100%10%
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008451371%1883%20 min
2009702269%3786%32 min
2010531474%1974%32 min
201120670%989%37 min
201245980%1292%37 min
201324388%367%35 min
2014401075%1258%36 min
2015622166%3863%29 min
2016421564%1182%21 min
2017401368%1471%21 min
201836781%757%19 min
20191082973%5465%23 min
2020421174%1182%27 min
2021742073%1479%22 min
202241880%2361%32 min
2023641872%2588%27 min
2024811779%2681%27 min
20251362979%5578%22 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200814471%475%30 min
20099456%3100%24 min
201011464%475%57 min
201110100%0
20127271%2100%104 min
201330100%0
201415567%3100%80 min
201510550%786%53 min
20166267%1100%0 min
201730100%0
201813285%667%111 min
20199278%367%25 min
20207186%250%56 min
202130100%0
202215193%333%0 min
202315287%1100%171 min
202418289%0
202520670%1030%135 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
Sep 19, 6:17 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatMAF118 min
Sep 19, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAF44 min
Sep 19, 5:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAF60 min
Sep 19, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMAF45 min
Sep 19, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAF52 min
Sep 19, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAF34 min
Sep 19, 4:25 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatMAF2 hr
Sep 19, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAF40 min
Sep 19, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAF47 min
Sep 19, 3:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAF36 min
Sep 19, 3:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAF3 hr
Sep 19, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAF24 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.