Weather alerts in Ward County, Texas

3,053 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Ward County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,053
Warnings: 1,046
Watches: 607
Advisories: 658
Busiest year: 2025197 alerts
Average year: 74over 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	476
Tornado Warning	39
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	162
Tornado Watch	55
Mesoscale Discussion	501
Special Weather Statement	241
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	18
Flash Flood Warning	81
Flash Flood Watch	55
Flood Watch	11
Areal Flood Advisory	144
Winter
Ice Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	14
Winter Storm Watch	18
Freezing Rain Advisory	2
Snow Advisory	4
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	44
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	63
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	31
Hard Freeze Warning	4
Wind Chill Warning	1
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	19
Wind Chill Watch	2
Cold Weather Advisory	8
Wind Chill Advisory	5
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Warning	2
Dust Storm Warning	18
High Wind Warning	34
High Wind Watch	24
Blowing Dust Advisory	26
Dust Storm Advisory	25
Wind Advisory	223
Fire
Red Flag Warning	322
Fire Weather Watch	258
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	88
Freezing Fog Advisory	25

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 16, 5:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	3 hr
Jul 16, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	29 min
Jul 5, 10:41 PM CDT	Dust Storm Warning	MAF	94 min
Jul 5, 9:11 PM CDT	Dust Storm Warning	MAF	94 min
Jun 30, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	42 min
Jun 28, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	59 min
Jun 11, 5:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	3 hr
Jun 11, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	46 min
Jun 10, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	48 min
Jun 5, 2:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	3 hr
Jun 3, 11:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	3 hr
May 26, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	26 min

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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.