Extreme Cold Watches in Texas

29 extreme cold watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of extreme cold watches reaches back to 2005.

Extreme Cold Watches by county

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

Extreme Cold Watches: 29
Busiest year: 202515 extreme cold watches
Average year: 15over 2 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

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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The latest extreme cold watches

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 23, 10:22 PM CST	Extreme Cold Watch	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler	12 hr
Jan 23, 1:00 PM CST	Extreme Cold Watch	HGX	Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 17 more	21 hr
Jan 23, 11:01 AM CST	Extreme Cold Watch	BRO	Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more	24 hr
Jan 23, 10:56 AM CST	Extreme Cold Watch	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler	11 hr
Jan 22, 11:18 AM CST	Extreme Cold Watch	SHV	Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more	25 hr
Jan 21, 1:30 PM CST	Extreme Cold Watch	HGX	Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 17 more	48 hr
Jan 21, 1:29 PM CST	Extreme Cold Watch	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Dawson and 18 more	36 hr
Jan 21, 1:22 PM CST	Extreme Cold Watch	CRP	Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells and 9 more	59 hr
Jan 21, 12:43 PM CST	Extreme Cold Watch	EWX	Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more	31 hr
Jan 21, 12:25 PM CST	Extreme Cold Watch	SJT	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 18 more	26 hr
Jan 21, 12:12 PM CST	Extreme Cold Watch	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more	26 hr
Jan 21, 1:16 AM CST	Extreme Cold Watch	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 9 more	45 hr

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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. Rebuilt daily.