--- title: "Flooding enters El Paso homes and closes West Texas roads" url: "https://bepreparedsolutions.co/reports/alert-pulse/tx-week-2026-09-21" description: "Every emergency alert sent across Texas in Sep 21 – 27, 2026, and what happened behind them. Figures for the week, with the data behind them." source: "BePrepared Solutions" --- [BePrepared](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/)[Alert Pulse](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/reports/alert-pulse) [Try freeFree 7\-day trial](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/trial?source=alert-pulse&utm_source=alert-pulse&utm_medium=report&utm_campaign=tx-week-2026-09-21&utm_content=masthead&returnTo=%2Freports%2Falert-pulse%2Ftx-week-2026-09-21) Alert Pulse · Texas · Weekly report · Sep 21 – 27, 2026 # Flooding enters El Paso homes and closes West Texas roads Residents faced flooded apartments and damaged streets in El Paso. Later flooding required a vehicle rescue in Hudspeth County and closed roads across the Panhandle and South Plains. [1](#el-paso-apartments-and-roads "Flash flooding in Texas and New Mexico, September 23")[2](#hudspeth-county-floodwater-rescue "Flash flooding in Texas and New Mexico, September 24 to 25")[3](#parmer-terry-flooded-roads "Flash flooding in Texas, September 25") Each story below, on the day it peaked - Flash flooding · Sep 25 Texas 4 orders to leave came from county agencies - Flash flooding · Sep 24–25 Texas and New Mexico - Flash flooding · Sep 21–22 Texas A county agency told people to leave - Flash flooding · Sep 23 Texas and New Mexico - Severe storms · Sep 21 Texas Gusts to 70 mph Named in the warnings: Spade, Hart, Shallowater Warnings identified flood danger, but they could not remove water from homes, bring stranded motorists to safety or make damaged roads passable. [Read the week](#el-paso-apartments-and-roads) ## Where the week happened Each numbered area is one of the stories below, drawn over the counties its warnings covered. - Flash flooding in Texas and New Mexico, Sep 23 - Flash flooding in Texas and New Mexico, Sep 24–25 - Flash flooding in Texas, Sep 25 Fig. 1. The counties each story covered, numbered as the report tells them. Colour groups the hazard: water, heat and fire, storms. Counties are the smallest area these warnings describe. The same areas as a list - **1.** Flash flooding in Texas and New Mexico, September 23 · Water · 4 counties drawn - **2.** Flash flooding in Texas and New Mexico, September 24 to 25 · Water · 6 counties drawn - **3.** Flash flooding in Texas, September 25 · Water · 6 counties drawn Figure 02 ### When it happened Each square is one day of the week, shaded by how many warnings went out.Shade is warnings that day. A number is the story it belongs to on the map. A ring marks a day on which news or officials reported what the event did to people. - Fewer warnings - More warnings - Impact on people reported View as a table | Day | Warnings | Story on the map | Documented impact on people | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Sep 21 | 152 | — | — | | Sep 22 | 45 | — | — | | Sep 23 | 40 | 1 | Yes | | Sep 24 | 50 | 2 | Yes | | Sep 25 | 97 | 2, 3 | Yes | | Sep 26 | 47 | — | — | | Sep 27 | 49 | — | — | ## [1](#the-map)Floodwater enters El Paso apartments and damaged roads close ![Muddy floodwater partially submerges a pickup truck, an SUV and a sedan parked outside an apartment building.](https://kvia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/NE-FLOODED-APTS0.png) [Appeared on KVIA](https://kvia.com/news/el-paso/2026/09/23/monsoon-rains-damage-northeast-el-paso-apartments/) 1. SEP 22, 10 PM CDT First warning Hudspeth County, Texas 2. SEP 23, 7 AM CDT Last warning Doña Ana County, New Mexico - Flash flooding — coloured as water. 4 counties in Texas and New Mexico, Sep 23. At North View Apartments in Northeast El Paso, flooding reported on September 23 reached four ground-floor units, with water approximately 1.5 feet deep, the property manager told KVIA ABC-7. Residents faced cleanup inside their homes, while crews elsewhere in the city confronted damaged streets. The first flash flood warning in this episode went out for Hudspeth County on the evening of September 22, local time. Warnings also covered El Paso County and neighboring New Mexico, the border-area flooding marked 1 on the map. The last warning ended in Doña Ana County the following morning. At North View, property manager Mike Baca told KVIA on September 23 that rain had overwhelmed the property's ponding arroyo. “Evidently the rain overtook that, and we're dealing with the aftermath.” Baca, general manager of M7elp Property Management, said trucks were extracting floodwater from the complex. Beyond residents' doors, El Paso police closed Scenic Drive in both directions on September 23. KVIA reported a caved-in section of roadway and officers blocking access. The station also relayed fire officials' reports of sinkholes: police and barricades blocked Brown Street and Murchison Drive, while street crews investigated Campbell Street and Myrtle Avenue. At Doniphan and Racetrack that day, KVIA observed stalled vehicles being towed after drivers entered high water. Elsewhere in El Paso, crews removed water, mud, rocks and trees from roads. No deaths or injuries were reported in the coverage checked for this flooding, including KVIA, the El Paso Times and KISS FM. [Flood alerts by the numbers](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/flood-preparedness#flood-statistics): every published month, by state and county. ## [2](#the-map)Rescuers pull two men from floodwater in Hudspeth County 1. SEP 24, 4 PM CDT First warning Culberson County, Texas 2. SEP 24, 5 PM CDT Considerable threat El Paso County, Texas 3. SEP 25, 11 AM CDT Last warning Brewster County, Texas - Flash flooding — coloured as water. 6 counties in Texas and New Mexico, Sep 24–25. Near San Felipe Road in Hudspeth County early September 25, a road rapidly became a river. Vanessa Guerra, an El Paso County emergency services district representative, told KTSM 9 News: “It happened on the road, which became a river really quickly and rescuing was needed”. The rescue took place within the western Texas flooding marked 2 on the map. The warning sequence had begun in Culberson County the previous afternoon. By 4:18 p.m. on September 24, a flash flood warning for El Paso County carried a considerable damage threat. That evening, Terlingua Fire and EMS shared a weather service storm statement, and officials advised people to seek shelter and avoid driving through flooded roads, according to the Big Bend Reporter. Early the next morning, rescuers brought two men to safety from a vehicle trapped in rapidly moving water near San Felipe Road, the Horizon City Fire Department told KTSM. Authorities reported neither man was injured, according to El Diario de El Paso, republished by El Diario del Noroeste. County water-rescue and search-and-rescue personnel worked alongside firefighters and sheriff's personnel from the surrounding area. In eastern El Paso County, Gateway West at Harnose had closed at 1 a.m. on September 25 after flooding left several inches of mud on the roadway, KTSM reported. Traffic was diverted to North Loop and Nuevo Hueco Tanks Road for access to the interstate. After water receded around 9 a.m. that morning, transportation crews worked to remove mud from Gateway West. KTSM reported that the left lane at Horizon reopened, but right lanes remained closed and traffic backed up. Beyond the uninjured men in the rescue, no deaths or injuries were reported in the coverage checked for this flooding, including KTSM, El Diario de El Paso and KVIA. [Flood alerts by the numbers](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/flood-preparedness#flood-statistics): every published month, by state and county. ## [3](#the-map)Flooding cuts off roads in Parmer and Terry counties 1. SEP 24, 6 PM CDT First warning Parmer County, Texas 2. SEP 24, 10 PM CDT County order Parmer County, Texas 3. SEP 25, 10 AM CDT County order Parmer County, Texas 4. SEP 25, 10 AM CDT County order Hockley County, Texas 5. SEP 26, 5 AM CDT Last warning Castro County, Texas - Flash flooding — coloured as water. 6 counties in Texas, Sep 25. At Lake Bottom in Parmer County on September 25, floodwater made FM2396 impassable. The Texas Department of Transportation closed the stretch between US60 and FM2290 and directed drivers to alternate routes, according to its emergency alert reproduced by GovOneStop. The closure was part of the Panhandle and South Plains flooding marked 3 on the map. A flash flood warning had begun in Parmer County the previous evening. A late-night closure alert followed for FM1381 at US60, before morning notices closed the Lake Bottom stretch and a flooded road in Hockley County. The Texas alert for the latter stated, “FM303 CLOSED NEAR S-CURVES DUE TO FLOODING”. In Terry County on September 25, transportation officials also closed FM213 between FM303 and FM403. Sections were impassable, and motorists were instructed to find another route, according to the department's emergency alert reproduced by GovOneStop. At the southbound interstate exit to McCormick Road, transportation officials announced a flooding closure at 10:17 a.m. that day and asked drivers to avoid the area if possible, the Amarillo Globe-News reported. No deaths or injuries were reported in the coverage and official records checked for this flooding, including the newspaper, transportation alerts and weather service statements. At Palo Duro Canyon State Park on September 25, all trails closed, along with the road from just past the Lighthouse parking lot to the Cactus Day Use Area, according to the Amarillo Globe-News. Park officials strongly encouraged visitors to postpone trips because of continued rain and wet conditions. The park itself remained open and continued honoring campsite reservations. [Flood alerts by the numbers](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/flood-preparedness#flood-statistics): every published month, by state and county. ## How BePrepared monitors this, all year This report exists because we already monitor the whole country. Every couple of minutes, around the clock, we read the emergency alerts going out across all fifty states and territories, and we keep them. A month of that record is what you have just read. The national picture is the part most people never see. What matters to you is much smaller: which of these warnings would have reached your street, and what the risks around you look like on an ordinary day. That is what BePrepared is for. Put in your ZIP code and you get the picture for where you live — the flood, fire and storm history around you, the dams and facilities nearby, and a plan for your household rather than a general one. With a free account you can keep a watchlist of the places you care about, like your home, your parents' address, and your kids' school, and set what you want to hear about. ## Where it hit hardest Counted as distinct warnings, and as the days a county spent under one. A county is the smallest area these warnings describe. ### Warnings by region - Texas83 - Southwest6 ### Most days under a warning - El Paso County, TX4 days El Paso County, TX was under a warning on: Sep 23, Sep 24, Sep 25, Sep 26 - Parmer County, TX4 days Parmer County, TX was under a warning on: Sep 21, Sep 24, Sep 25, Sep 26 - Hudspeth County, TX3 days Hudspeth County, TX was under a warning on: Sep 23, Sep 24, Sep 25 - Hockley County, TX3 days Hockley County, TX was under a warning on: Sep 21, Sep 22, Sep 23 - Cochran County, TX3 days Cochran County, TX was under a warning on: Sep 21, Sep 22, Sep 23 - Terry County, TX3 days Terry County, TX was under a warning on: Sep 21, Sep 22, Sep 23 - Culberson County, TX2 days Culberson County, TX was under a warning on: Sep 24, Sep 25 - Reeves County, TX2 days Reeves County, TX was under a warning on: Sep 24, Sep 25 Figure 03[Embed this chart](#use-these-figures) ### Where the warnings landed Every county in Texas that received a warning this week, coloured and scaled by how many; the faint dots are counties this edition does not cover.203 counties in Texas received at least one warning; the faint dots are every other county in the country, which this edition does not cover. Each county wears its MOST frequent kind of warning and its dot scales with how many it received; the month's three biggest kinds carry color and every other kind wears gray, with the panels below giving each kind its own map. The full per-county mix is in the CSV. Too few counties to panel: tornadoes (6). - Flooding - Severe storms - Safety & civil - Everything else Flooding397 warnings · 58 counties Severe storms157 warnings · 44 counties Safety & civil59 warnings · 49 counties View as a table | County | State | Warnings | Most frequent kind | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | El Paso | TX | 71 | Flooding | | Hudspeth | TX | 48 | Flooding | | Culberson | TX | 32 | Flooding | | Reeves | TX | 27 | Severe storms | | Hockley | TX | 23 | Severe storms | | Doña Ana | NM | 22 | Flooding | | Brewster | TX | 22 | Flooding | | Lamb | TX | 19 | Severe storms | | Randall | TX | 19 | Flooding | | Parmer | TX | 18 | Tornadoes | | Otero | NM | 17 | Flooding | | Jeff Davis | TX | 15 | Everything else | | Tarrant | TX | 14 | Everything else | | Eddy | NM | 14 | Flooding | | Freestone | TX | 14 | Severe storms | | Hartley | TX | 13 | Flooding | | Collin | TX | 12 | Everything else | | Lea | NM | 12 | Flooding | | Cochran | TX | 12 | Severe storms | | Dallam | TX | 12 | Flooding | The human record ## What it cost, and who reported it These figures are not ours. Our archive records that a warning was issued, never what happened next, so every number here comes from the organization named beside it and was retrieved on September 30, 2026. - Toll 0injuries in the airport awning collapse The El Paso Fire Department told KVIA that nobody was hurt when part of the front-entrance awning at El Paso International Airport collapsed shortly before 10 p.m. on September 23. Source: [KVIA ABC-7](https://kvia.com/news/2026/09/23/roof-damage-at-el-paso-international-airport/) - In their words Mike Baca described the flooding at North View Apartments to KVIA, saying the rain had overwhelmed the property's ponding arroyo. > “Evidently the rain overtook that, and we're dealing with the aftermath.” Mike Baca, General manager of M7elp Property Management, to KVIA ABC-7 Source: [KVIA ABC-7](https://kvia.com/news/el-paso/2026/09/23/monsoon-rains-damage-northeast-el-paso-apartments/) - Damage 4apartment units reporting flooding North View Apartments property manager Mike Baca told KVIA that four first-floor units in the Northeast El Paso complex reported flooding involving water approximately 1.5 feet deep. Source: [KVIA ABC-7](https://kvia.com/news/el-paso/2026/09/23/monsoon-rains-damage-northeast-el-paso-apartments/) - Damage 7vehicles stranded The City of El Paso said floodwater stranded seven vehicles at one location. Source: [KVIA ABC-7](https://kvia.com/news/el-paso/2026/09/23/heavy-rain-causes-leaks-at-el-paso-airport-sinkhole-in-central/) - Damage 2sinkhole reports El Paso Fire reported two sinkhole reports, with police and barricades blocking Brown Street and Murchison Drive and the Streets and Maintenance Department investigating Campbell Street and Myrtle Avenue. Source: [KVIA ABC-7](https://kvia.com/news/el-paso/2026/09/23/drivers-pedestrians-advised-to-stay-away-from-flooded-roads-after-storms/) - Toll Authorities reported no injuries in the September 25 rescue of two men from a vehicle trapped in floodwater near San Felipe road in Hudspeth County. Source: [El Diario de El Paso, republished by El Diario del Noroeste](https://eldiariodelnoroeste.mx/amp/local/2026/sep/25/salvan-a-dos-atrapados-en-calle-que-se-convirtio-en-un-rio-841304.html) ArchiveOur records show flash flooding warnings covering this area on September 25. - Rescue 2people rescued Rescuers removed two men from a vehicle trapped in rapidly moving floodwater near San Felipe road in Hudspeth County early September 25 and brought them to safety, according to the Horizon City Fire Department. Source: [KTSM 9 News, syndicated by AOL](https://www.aol.com/articles/2-rescued-vehicle-trapped-rapidly-183924000.html) ArchiveOur records show flash flooding warnings covering this area on September 25. - In their words Vanessa Guerra of El Paso County Emergency Services District No. 1 told KTSM that the road at the Hudspeth County rescue location rapidly became a river. > “It happened on the road, which became a river really quickly and rescuing was needed” Vanessa Guerra, El Paso County Emergency Services District No. 1 representative, to KTSM 9 News Source: [KTSM 9 News, syndicated by AOL](https://www.aol.com/articles/2-rescued-vehicle-trapped-rapidly-183924000.html) - Closed Gateway West at Harnose in eastern El Paso County closed at 1 a.m. on September 25 after flooding left several inches of mud covering the roadway. Source: [KTSM 9 News, syndicated by AOL](https://www.aol.com/articles/gateway-west-harnose-closed-due-154308000.html) ArchiveOur records show flash flooding warnings covering this area on September 25. - Response The September 25 Hudspeth County rescue involved the El Paso County Emergency Services District No. 1 Water Rescue Team and county search-and-rescue personnel, assisted by personnel from San Elizario, Fabens, Texas Task Force 1, El Paso Fire and the Hudspeth and El Paso county sheriff's offices. Source: [KTSM 9 News, syndicated by AOL](https://www.aol.com/articles/2-rescued-vehicle-trapped-rapidly-183924000.html) ArchiveOur records show flash flooding warnings covering this area on September 25. - Closed On September 25, 2026, TxDOT reported that FM2396 between US60 and FM2290 in Parmer County was closed by flooding, with the road impassable at Lake Bottom, and directed motorists to alternate routes. Source: [Texas Department of Transportation emergency alert, reproduced by GovOneStop](https://govonestop.com/eas/texas-severe-local-area-emergency-effective-09-25-2026-0836) ArchiveOur records show flash flooding warnings covering this area on September 25. - Closed On September 25, 2026, TxDOT reported that FM213 from FM303 to FM403 in Terry County was closed by flooding, with sections impassable, and instructed motorists to seek an alternate route. Source: [Texas Department of Transportation emergency alert, reproduced by GovOneStop](https://govonestop.com/eas/texas-severe-local-area-emergency-effective-09-25-2026-0958) ArchiveOur records show flash flooding warnings covering this area on September 25. - Closed The Amarillo Globe-News reported that TxDOT announced at 10:17 a.m. on September 25, 2026, that flooding had closed the southbound I-27 exit ramp to McCormick Road and asked drivers to avoid the area if possible. Source: [Amarillo Globe-News, republished by AOL](https://www.aol.com/articles/flash-flood-warning-issued-amarillo-151654000.html) - Closed Palo Duro Canyon State Park announced on September 25, 2026, that all trails and the road from just past the Lighthouse parking lot to the Cactus Day Use Area were closed. Source: [Amarillo Globe-News, republished by AOL](https://www.aol.com/articles/flash-flood-warning-issued-amarillo-151654000.html) - Response Palo Duro Canyon State Park strongly encouraged visitors to postpone their visits because of continued rain and wet conditions on September 25, 2026, while keeping the park open and honoring campsite reservations. Source: [Amarillo Globe-News, republished by AOL](https://www.aol.com/articles/flash-flood-warning-issued-amarillo-151654000.html) For 3 of these stories, research looked for reported deaths and injuries and found none. As far as the record shows, no one was hurt. BePrepared ## 480 warnings reached Texas in Sep 21 – 27, 2026. See which reach your street. We read the emergency alerts going out across Texas and the rest of the country, around the clock. That is where this report comes from. Enter your ZIP and get the version that matters to you: the flood, fire and storm history around your address, what sits nearby, and a plan built for your household. [Start your free 7-day trial](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/trial?source=alert-pulse&utm_source=alert-pulse&utm_medium=report&utm_campaign=tx-week-2026-09-21&utm_content=card&returnTo=%2Freports%2Falert-pulse%2Ftx-week-2026-09-21) No card. It ends on its own. [Or just look up your ZIP](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/zip) The numbers behind this report Every warning counted once, by type, place, day and hour, with the method below and the whole table downloadable at the end of the page. Distinct warnings 480 carried by 486 messages (1.01× echo) Counties reached 203 across 5 states and territories Overnight 126 10pm–6am local · 6 of the most severe Effective on arrival 100% take effect the moment they are sent ### What was warned about | Alert type | Warnings | Messages | | --- | --- | --- | | Special Weather Statement | 167 | 167 | | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 89 | 89 | | Flash Flood Warning | 81 | 81 | | Flood Advisory | 62 | 62 | | Flood Watch | 32 | 38 | | Local Area Emergency | 20 | 20 | | Air Quality Alert | 13 | 13 | | Flood Warning | 9 | 9 | ### Where | State | Warnings | | --- | --- | | TX | 412 | | NM | 48 | | OK | 14 | | AR | 3 | | LA | 3 | The busiest hour of the period was 5pm local time, with 54 warnings. ### Counties reached most often | County | State | Warnings | | --- | --- | --- | | El Paso | TX | 71 | | Hudspeth | TX | 48 | | Culberson | TX | 32 | | Reeves | TX | 27 | | Hockley | TX | 23 | | Doña Ana | NM | 22 | | Brewster | TX | 22 | | Lamb | TX | 19 | | Randall | TX | 19 | | Parmer | TX | 18 | A county with no alerts is not a county with no risk. It can mean a quiet period, or a hazard that this feed does not carry. Figure 04[Embed this chart](#use-these-figures) ### When the warnings arrived Distinct warnings by the local hour they were sent, across the whole period.Local time in the place each alert was sent to. 126 arrived between 10pm and 6am, 6 of them at the highest severity. View as a table | Local hour | Warnings | Of which most severe | | --- | --- | --- | | 12am | 19 | 0 | | 1am | 17 | 0 | | 2am | 21 | 0 | | 3am | 11 | 0 | | 4am | 11 | 0 | | 5am | 4 | 0 | | 6am | 10 | 0 | | 7am | 6 | 0 | | 8am | 6 | 0 | | 9am | 9 | 0 | | 10am | 8 | 0 | | 11am | 10 | 0 | | 12pm | 11 | 0 | | 1pm | 20 | 0 | | 2pm | 42 | 0 | | 3pm | 33 | 0 | | 4pm | 47 | 0 | | 5pm | 54 | 1 | | 6pm | 29 | 0 | | 7pm | 34 | 0 | | 8pm | 14 | 0 | | 9pm | 21 | 0 | | 10pm | 19 | 4 | | 11pm | 24 | 2 | Figure 05[Embed this chart](#use-these-figures) ### The feed repeats itself How many messages the feed carried, how many distinct warnings they represent, and how many counties those reached.An echo rate of 1.01× — for every warning issued, 1.01 messages carried it. Reporting messages as warnings would overstate this week by 6. View as a table | Stage | Count | | --- | --- | | Messages received | 486 | | Of which updates | 144 | | Of which cancels | 0 | | Distinct warnings | 480 | | Counties reached | 203 | Figure 06[Embed this chart](#use-these-figures) ### How severe they were Distinct warnings by the severity the issuing agency assigned. - Minor - Moderate - Severe - Extreme - Not classified View as a table | Severity | Warnings | | --- | --- | | Minor | 62 | | Moderate | 167 | | Severe | 231 | | Extreme | 7 | | Not classified | 13 | Figure 07[Embed this chart](#use-these-figures) ### What people were told to do The share of warnings carrying each instruction to the public.These are response counts. They record the instruction an alert carried, not the hazard behind it. - Follow instructions - Avoid - Shelter - Everything else Where those instructions came from - Shelter (95) — 41 corroborated as flood, 1 corroborated as tornado, 53 with no hazard stated in the alert text View as a table | Response | Warnings | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Follow instructions | 167 | 34.8% | | Avoid | 152 | 31.7% | | Shelter | 95 | 19.8% | | Prepare | 33 | 6.9% | | Unstated | 20 | 4.2% | | Monitor | 13 | 2.7% | ### What this report cannot tell you - This report records the warnings that were sent: when, where, and what people were told to do. It cannot say whether anyone received them, whether they acted, or whether they had anywhere to go. - Deaths, injuries, damage and acreage come from the news organizations and agencies named beside each figure. Our own records measure warnings, never outcomes, and are never the source for a toll. - A county is the smallest area these alerts describe, so "a county was warned" does not mean every street in it was at risk. - Where no figure has been reported, this report says so rather than estimating. ## How these numbers were counted Counted SEP 21, 2026 – SEP 28, 2026 · Frozen at publish The alert figures in this report — how many warnings, where, when, and how severe — come from the alerts this archive received from FEMA IPAWS and the National Weather Service between September 21, 2026 and September 28, 2026, counted once and frozen when the report was published. Deaths, damage and acreage are **not** ours and are never drawn from this archive. Each is attributed to the organization that reported it, above. ### What was counted - Only alerts covering at least one county in Texas. An alert warning several states is counted in each of them, so state editions do not sum to the national total. - cap\_status = 'Actual' (tests, exercises and demos excluded) - SAME test codes RWT/RMT/DMO/NPT/NAT excluded, and any event type containing "test" - An event is the first message of a CAP identifier chain; updates and cancels are counted separately - Alert time is cap\_sent, falling back to ingest time when the feed omits it - Counties come from the alert geocodes (SAME/FIPS); statewide codes are not counted as counties ### What these numbers cannot tell you - Lead time is the gap between when an alert was sent and when it takes effect. This archive collapses CAP onset into effective, so for many products those are the same instant by design — it is not a measure of forecast warning time. - 2 alerts expire exactly 24 hours after they were sent because the feed omitted an expiry and the ingest substitutes a default. They are excluded from the duration distribution rather than charted as real forecasts. - Evacuation and shelter figures are RESPONSE counts. They record what people were told to do, not what caused it; where the alert text does not name a hazard, the row is reported as unstated. - Hour-of-day figures use each alert’s own local time, resolved from its state. Alerts spanning several states resolve to the first state in their geocodes. - National Weather Service alerts began arriving in volume on 2026-06-12. Earlier months hold only the handful that reached this archive by other routes, so they undercount weather alerts badly and cannot be compared with later months. - Population figures are not available for these counties, so alert counts are reported per county and never per resident. ### This archive Collection began 2026-03-27. National Weather Service alerts began arriving in volume on 2026-06-12 (a small number reached the archive by other routes from 2026-03-31). 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