Extreme Heat Warning Issued for Five Texas Counties Monday
The National Weather Service has upgraded the heat advisory to an Extreme Heat Warning for parts of the Texas South Plains.
3 reports on this incident · first at Aug 23, 2026, 1:20 p.m. ET
Hazard products are revised and cancelled as conditions change. Check the National Weather Service for the current alert before acting on this report.
We last searched for new coverage of this at Aug 23, 2026, 1:09 p.m. ET — checked 1h ago.
Earlier reports
Aug 23, 2026, 1:23 p.m. ET
Extreme Heat Warning for Briscoe, Hall, Childress, Motley, Cottle from Noon to 8 PM CDT Monday
The National Weather Service in Lubbock, Texas, warns that heat-related illnesses increase significantly during extreme heat events. The warning is in effect from noon to 8 p.m. CDT Monday, August 24, for Briscoe, Hall, Childress, Motley, and Cottle counties, including the cities of Turkey, Quitaque, Roaring Springs, Matador, Paducah, Memphis, Cee Vee, Silverton, Childress, and Kirkland.
Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures up to 113 degrees are expected. The National Weather Service advises drinking plenty of fluids, staying in an air-conditioned room, staying out of the sun, and checking on relatives and neighbors. It recommends wearing lightweight and loose-fitting clothing, limiting strenuous activities to early morning or evening, and taking action when seeing symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
Aug 23, 2026, 1:20 p.m. ETFirst report
Extreme Heat Warning for Briscoe, Hall, Childress, Motley, Cottle Counties Starts Monday Noon
The National Weather Service in Lubbock, Texas, has issued an Extreme Heat Warning for parts of the Texas Panhandle and South Plains, in effect from noon to 8 p.m. CDT Monday, August 24, 2026. The warning covers Briscoe, Hall, Childress, Motley, and Cottle counties, including the cities of Turkey, Quitaque, Roaring Springs, Matador, Paducah, Memphis, Cee Vee, Silverton, Childress, and Kirkland.
Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures up to 113 degrees are expected. The warning begins at noon CDT Monday, August 24, and ends at 8 p.m. CDT that day. A separate Extreme Heat Warning is in effect until 8 p.m. CDT this evening, according to the National Weather Service.
Heat-related illnesses increase significantly during extreme heat events. The National Weather Service advises drinking plenty of fluids, staying in an air-conditioned room, staying out of the sun, and checking on relatives and neighbors. When outdoors, wear lightweight and loose-fitting clothing, and limit strenuous activities to early morning or evening. Take action if you see symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
Was this report accurate and useful?
Sources
Revision history
- Version 123 Aug 2026, 17:30
First published.
- Version 123 Aug 2026, 17:23current
First published.
- Version 123 Aug 2026, 17:20current
First published.
- Version 123 Aug 2026, 17:25current
First published.
How we work
This site models an investigative reporter rather than a wire desk. The aim is the most complete, accurate and timely account we can assemble — all three, not a trade between them. Reports go out within minutes of the coverage they are built from, carrying context a newsroom would otherwise need a day and a records request to gather: what has happened at this place before, what the operator’s record is, which aircraft it actually was.
Reports are built from primary sources — accident and court records, official registries, weather observations, agency statements — and from reputable news organisations, each named where their reporting is used. Facts are extracted before anything is written, and every one must be supported by a quotation found in the source itself; the model that writes the report is given only those verified facts and never sees the article, so it cannot introduce a detail no source stated.
Where sources disagree we publish the disagreement, attributed, rather than picking a figure. Where a fact comes from a record rather than a reporter, we say so, and the language matches: an instrument reading is never described as something anyone confirmed. Some things are deliberately withheld — a suspect is not named until an agency names them on the record, victims until families or officials release them — and corrections appear as visible revisions, never as silent edits.
None of that makes a report true. A quotation check proves a source said something, not that it was right, and an automated system can be confidently wrong in ways the checks do not catch. If something here is wrong, the feedback above is how it gets found. The full methodology, including what we refuse to publish.