Alert archive / Texas

Weather alerts in Sutton County, Texas

2,738 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Sutton County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,738
Warnings
793
Watches
536
Advisories
490
Busiest year
2025212 alerts
Average year
67over 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, of tornado reports in Sutton County fell inside a tornado warning, and 100% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200850100%0
200960100%0
201110100%0
201220100%0
201940100%0
202010100%0
202440100%0
202510100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20087186%0
200916756%5100%36 min
20108275%2100%20 min
20117186%10%
20125260%250%21 min
20136183%0
20145340%1100%18 min
201517853%250%30 min
201614471%8100%16 min
201713285%0
201811373%2100%31 min
201922195%20%
20208188%0
202112375%2100%29 min
202290100%0
20239189%0
202428486%475%17 min
202528293%520%19 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20084175%0
20094250%4100%123 min
2010110%0
201110100%10%
20133167%4100%209 min
201610100%0
201710100%0
20187443%3100%155 min
2019110%1100%142 min
202120100%0
202210100%0
202340100%0
202430100%0
202513654%5100%136 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
Jul 17, 12:33 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSJT3 hr
Jul 17, 10:45 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningSJT5 hr
Jul 17, 10:06 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threatSJT3 hr
Jul 17, 7:12 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threatSJT3 hr
Jul 17, 6:44 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSJT5 hr
Jul 17, 6:02 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSJT5 hr
Jul 17, 3:40 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSJT3 hr
Jul 16, 10:25 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSJT3 hr
Jul 16, 7:35 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSJT3 hr
Jul 16, 4:28 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSJT3 hr
Jul 14, 7:21 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSJT3 hr
Jul 14, 6:21 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSJT3 hr

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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.