Alert archive / Texas

Weather alerts in Wilson County, Texas

2,731 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Wilson County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,731
Warnings
838
Watches
416
Advisories
767
Busiest year
2015180 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, 17% of tornado reports in Wilson County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 24 minutes before, and 88% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200830100%10%
201240100%0
201410100%0
20157271%333%24 min
201910100%0
2020010%
202310100%10%
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20085260%1100%13 min
20098538%2100%6 min
201011555%560%19 min
20115340%0
20127443%786%30 min
20136433%4100%17 min
201412650%560%19 min
201516850%875%28 min
20169633%1346%10 min
20179633%3100%28 min
20188538%3100%17 min
201915847%1100%33 min
2020171135%475%13 min
202116850%3100%11 min
20227443%1100%24 min
202322864%1100%2 min
202416944%7100%24 min
202512558%0

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200910820%475%91 min
201012118%1100%73 min
2012440%250%126 min
20135340%250%54 min
201410100%0
201515753%425%98 min
2016220%3100%170 min
201810100%0
2019220%1100%27 min
2020110%1100%157 min
20216267%1100%282 min
2022110%0
20232150%0
20254175%0

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
Aug 27, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWX40 min
Aug 27, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWX52 min
Jul 15, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningEWX10 min
Jul 15, 5:35 PM CDTTornado WarningEWX40 min
Jul 15, 2:21 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEWX3 days
Jul 15, 2:21 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEWX61 hr
Jul 15, 6:37 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEWX60 hr
Jun 17, 12:01 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningEWX45 hr
Jun 15, 3:01 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningEWX18 hr
Jun 15, 9:53 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningEWX23 hr
May 23, 8:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWX15 min
May 10, 10:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWX66 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.