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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Starr County, Texas, 2023

24 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2023. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Starr County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
24
Busiest month
April10 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
May 30, 20236 severe thunderstorm warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

7 of 24 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Starr County in 2023 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 8 of 10 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 26 minutes after it went out.

Starr County, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings24771%1080%26 min

Each office's whole area, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Brownsville, TX: severe thunderstorm warnings883363%11093%28 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
Apr 21, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBRO40 min
Apr 21, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBRO49 min
Apr 23, 11:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBRO48 min
Apr 23, 12:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBRO43 min
Apr 23, 1:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBRO24 min
Apr 28, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBRO50 min
Apr 28, 10:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBRO46 min
Apr 28, 11:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBRO41 min
Apr 28, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBRO39 min
Apr 29, 12:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatBRO37 min
May 7, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBRO23 min
May 13, 12:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBRO40 min
May 29, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBRO46 min
May 29, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBRO49 min
May 29, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBRO30 min
May 29, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBRO33 min
May 29, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBRO29 min
May 29, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBRO34 min
Jun 3, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBRO51 min
Jun 3, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBRO36 min
Jun 3, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBRO51 min
Jun 5, 1:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBRO29 min
Jun 5, 2:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBRO17 min
Jun 5, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBRO24 min

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.