Campus Alert Archive

Institution

The University of Texas at Austin

UT AustinTXPublic R1Longhorn Alert~53,000 students

Cases: 9
Alerts: 24
Verbatim: 38%
Span: 1966–2026

Official alert policy

How UT Austin says it will alert — when and how Longhorn Alert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.

Case log

Every documented incident

9 cases · 9 of 24 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2026

winter storm: 2026-01-26Two-Day Freeze: UT Austin Shuts All Central Texas Facilities Through Monday and Tuesday for Winter Storm Fernadvisoryverbatim

2024

2018

stabbing: 2018-10-15A UT Student Stabbed in the Arm on the Drag: A Five-Minute Arrest That Renewed UT's Push for Guadalupe Street Safetytimely warning1 injured

2017

hurricane: 2017-08-25Text UTMOVE to 888-777: How Austin's Inland Campus Braced for Harvey's Rainemergency notification

2012

bomb threat: 2012-09-1475 Minutes from Threat to Evacuate: How UT Austin Cleared 50,000 People After an Al-Qaeda Hoax Callemergency notificationverbatim

2010

1966

active shooter: 1966-08-0196 Minutes of Terror: The Tower Shooting That Launched the SWAT Eraemergency notification17 killed · 31 injuredverbatim

By incident type

What UT Austin has alerted about

Active Shooter · 3 Weather · 2 Bomb Threat · 1 Hazmat / Gas · 1 other · 1 stabbing · 1

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