Alert archive / Texas / Van Zandt County
Weather alerts in Van Zandt County, Texas, 2020
65 weather alerts in 2020, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Van Zandt County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 65
- Warnings
- 8
- Watches
- 11
- Advisories
- 20
- Busiest month
- April18 alerts
- Busiest day
- April 19, 20205 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Van Zandt County, 2020
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 6 | 5 | 17% | 6 | 83% | 25 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2020
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Fort Worth, TX: tornado warnings | 37 | 13 | 65% | 30 | 60% | 17 min |
| NWS Fort Worth, TX: severe thunderstorm warnings | 212 | 113 | 47% | 327 | 83% | 27 min |
| NWS Fort Worth, TX: flash flood warnings | 28 | 18 | 36% | 31 | 74% | 68 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 10:42 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | FWD | 10 hr |
| Jan 10, 1:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
| Jan 10, 4:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jan 10, 7:30 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jan 13, 9:43 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | FWD | 12 hr |
| Jan 22, 6:08 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | FWD | 13 hr |
| Jan 26, 11:46 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | FWD | 11 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:20 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
| Mar 17, 3:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FWD | 67 hr |
| Mar 18, 8:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | 117 min |
| Mar 19, 1:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 62 min |
| Mar 19, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Mar 19, 10:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | 50 min |
| Mar 20, 3:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | 114 min |
| Mar 22, 10:16 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | FWD | 13 hr |
| Apr 11, 10:10 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 12, 7:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Apr 12, 1:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Apr 12, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 7:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| Apr 19, 10:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | 67 min |
| Apr 19, 11:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Apr 19, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 12:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 10:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 22, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
| Apr 24, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Apr 24, 7:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 101 min |
| Apr 28, 8:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 54 min |
| Apr 28, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Apr 28, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | 57 min |
| Apr 29, 12:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | 29 min |
| May 7, 11:19 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | FWD | 21 hr |
| May 8, 7:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | 58 min |
| May 15, 8:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 16, 10:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FWD | 14 hr |
| May 16, 2:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | 26 min |
| May 16, 5:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | 3 hr |
| May 22, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | 16 min |
| May 24, 12:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 96 min |
| Jun 21, 6:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 1:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | 44 min |
| Jun 29, 2:38 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | FWD | 3 days |
| Jul 5, 6:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | 48 min |
| Jul 5, 6:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 8:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:29 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | FWD | 5 days |
| Jul 14, 12:15 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | FWD | 20 hr |
| Aug 12, 3:04 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | FWD | 5 days |
| Aug 27, 2:30 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | FWD | 53 hr |
| Aug 29, 11:48 AM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | FWD | 7 hr |
| Aug 29, 6:03 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | FWD | 3 days |
| Aug 30, 1:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 53 min |
| Aug 31, 7:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FWD | 60 hr |
| Nov 14, 12:33 PM CST | Wind Advisory | FWD | 5 hr |
| Nov 24, 8:03 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Nov 24, 8:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Nov 24, 10:30 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | 45 min |
| Nov 29, 2:44 AM CST | Freeze Watch | FWD | 9 hr |
| Nov 29, 11:29 AM CST | Freeze Warning | FWD | 22 hr |
| Dec 11, 7:23 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | FWD | 8 hr |
| Dec 19, 9:32 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | FWD | 13 hr |
| Dec 22, 11:50 PM CST | Wind Advisory | FWD | 28 hr |
| Dec 30, 3:19 AM CST | Flash Flood Watch | FWD | 39 hr |
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 | 6 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 4 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 18 |
| Special Weather Statement | 8 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Watch | 4 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 4 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 1 |
| Heat Advisory | 6 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Freeze Watch | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 3 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 7 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.