Weather alerts in Sterling County, Texas

3,101 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Sterling County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,101
Warnings: 916
Watches: 664
Advisories: 543
Busiest year: 2025168 alerts
Average year: 76over 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

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	471
Tornado Warning	55
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	286
Tornado Watch	121
Mesoscale Discussion	752
Special Weather Statement	226
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning	55
River Flood Warning	3
Flash Flood Watch	54
Flood Watch	12
Areal Flood Advisory	127
Winter
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	19
Winter Storm Watch	20
Freezing Rain Advisory	5
Snow Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	56
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	28
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Heat Advisory	81
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	41
Wind Chill Warning	1
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	15
Wind Chill Watch	1
Cold Weather Advisory	6
Frost Advisory	15
Wind Chill Advisory	11
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	7
High Wind Warning	13
High Wind Watch	5
Blowing Dust Advisory	8
Dust Storm Advisory	2
Lake Wind Advisory	23
Wind Advisory	159
Fire
Red Flag Warning	216
Fire Weather Watch	148
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	41
Freezing Fog Advisory	8

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 5, 8:24 PM CDT	Dust Storm Warning	SJT	66 min
Jun 17, 1:04 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	SJT	33 hr
May 22, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	51 min
May 22, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	64 min
May 22, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	64 min
May 21, 9:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	3 hr
May 19, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	56 min
Apr 18, 7:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	42 min
Apr 18, 6:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	51 min
Apr 18, 5:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	48 min
Apr 13, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	66 min
Apr 1, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	57 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. Rebuilt daily.