Alert archive / Texas

Weather alerts in Wood County, Texas

3,786 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Wood County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,786
Warnings
1,109
Watches
608
Advisories
1,015
Busiest year
2011224 alerts
Average year
92over 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, 78% of tornado reports in Wood County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 18 minutes before, and 67% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20083167%0
2009220%0
20106433%875%11 min
20113233%3100%25 min
2013010%
20157271%0
20168188%0
20175180%10%
201850100%0
20197271%2100%11 min
20226267%1100%3 min
202420100%0
20254250%2100%39 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200817947%875%21 min
2009161038%875%32 min
201017853%786%24 min
2011281739%989%17 min
2012131115%978%32 min
20139633%1080%15 min
2014131115%683%26 min
2015161319%1464%23 min
2016181139%1782%27 min
201715940%3100%36 min
201810640%743%29 min
2019241442%2060%23 min
202010100%875%16 min
2021161319%9100%27 min
2022201145%888%14 min
2023312713%1889%25 min
2024301937%7100%18 min
2025171324%4100%4 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20084250%10%
2009990%1275%121 min
2010220%0
2012440%888%71 min
201310100%0
201511918%1694%65 min
20165420%10100%233 min
2017110%0
20183167%1100%32 min
2019220%1100%108 min
2020220%1100%97 min
2021010%
20223233%1100%7 min
202320100%10%
20246350%1100%73 min
2025660%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
Sep 21, 11:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV52 min
Aug 21, 12:29 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningSHV20 hr
Jul 22, 12:09 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningSHV20 hr
Jul 16, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV44 min
Jul 6, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV22 min
Jul 6, 3:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHV3 hr
Jul 6, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV46 min
Jul 6, 2:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV37 min
Jun 7, 12:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV53 min
Jun 2, 3:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV52 min
May 23, 5:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV62 min
May 23, 4:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV59 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.