Alert archive / Texas / Fire Weather Watches / 2018
Fire Weather Watches in Texas, May 2018
17 fire weather watches in May 2018. 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 fire weather watches reaches back to 2005.
Fire Weather Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Fire Weather Watches
- 17
- Busiest day
- May 9, 20184 fire weather watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 3:50 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 7 more | 19 hr |
| May 1, 3:47 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Dickens and 13 more | 12 hr |
| May 1, 3:52 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley and 6 more | 12 hr |
| May 6, 3:16 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 4 more | 14 hr |
| May 6, 3:28 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | OUN | Foard, Hardeman, Knox | 12 hr |
| May 9, 3:54 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | 24 hr | |
| May 9, 7:53 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | El Paso | 24 hr |
| May 9, 3:22 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Floyd and 9 more | 37 hr |
| May 9, 3:39 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley and 6 more | 36 hr |
| May 10, 3:52 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | Gaines | 23 hr |
| May 11, 3:21 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | Gaines | 11 hr |
| May 11, 3:54 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | AMA | Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Potter and 2 more | 24 hr |
| May 11, 3:56 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb and 5 more | 24 hr |
| May 16, 2:48 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | Loving, Ward, Winkler | 32 hr |
| May 17, 7:51 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 7 hr |
| May 30, 2:06 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | 14 hr | |
| May 31, 4:30 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall | 11 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Deaf Smith County5
- Oldham County5
- Potter County5
- Randall County5
- Armstrong County4
- Carson County4
- Gaines County3
- Bailey County3
- Castro County3
- Cochran County3
- Hale County3
- Hockley County3
- Lamb County3
- Lubbock County3
- Parmer County3
- Swisher County3
- Terry County3
- Yoakum County3
- Dallam County3
- Hartley County3
- Moore County3
- Sherman County3
- Loving County2
- Ward County2
- Winkler County2
- Briscoe County2
- Crosby County2
- Floyd County2
- Lynn County2
- Hansford County2
- Hutchinson County2
- El Paso County2
- Andrews County1
- Borden County1
- Crane County1
- Dawson County1
- Ector County1
- Howard County1
- Martin County1
- Midland County1
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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.