Hard Freeze Watches in Texas
51 hard freeze 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 hard freeze watches reaches back to 2005.
Hard Freeze Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Hard Freeze Watches
- 51
- Busiest year
- 202210 hard freeze watches
- Average year
- 4over 13 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.
- Tyler County14
- Hardin County13
- Grimes County13
- Houston County13
- Madison County13
- Trinity County13
- Walker County13
- Brazos County12
- Burleson County12
- Polk County12
- San Jacinto County12
- Austin County11
- Colorado County11
- Montgomery County11
- Waller County11
- Jasper County11
- Newton County11
- Washington County10
- Liberty County9
- Fort Bend County8
- Harris County8
- Jackson County8
- Wharton County8
- Brazoria County7
- Chambers County7
- Galveston County7
- Matagorda County7
- Brooks County7
- Jim Hogg County7
- Kenedy County7
- Bee County6
- Calhoun County6
- Duval County6
- Goliad County6
- Jim Wells County6
- Live Oak County6
- McMullen County6
- Refugio County6
- Victoria County6
- Zapata County6
112 more counties
- Gray County6
- Ochiltree County6
- Roberts County6
- La Salle County5
- San Patricio County5
- Starr County5
- Armstrong County5
- Carson County5
- Collingsworth County5
- Dallam County5
- Deaf Smith County5
- Donley County5
- Hansford County5
- Hartley County5
- Hemphill County5
- Hutchinson County5
- Lipscomb County5
- Moore County5
- Oldham County5
- Potter County5
- Randall County5
- Sherman County5
- Wheeler County5
- Hidalgo County4
- Kleberg County4
- Nueces County4
- Webb County4
- Willacy County3
- Aransas County2
- Cameron County2
- Orange County2
- Archer County1
- Baylor County1
- Clay County1
- Foard County1
- Hardeman County1
- Knox County1
- Wichita County1
- Wilbarger County1
- Collin County1
- Cooke County1
- Delta County1
- Denton County1
- Eastland County1
- Fannin County1
- Grayson County1
- Hopkins County1
- Hunt County1
- Jack County1
- Lamar County1
- Montague County1
- Palo Pinto County1
- Parker County1
- Rains County1
- Stephens County1
- Wise County1
- Young County1
- Angelina County1
- Atascosa County1
- Bandera County1
- Bastrop County1
- Bexar County1
- Blanco County1
- Bowie County1
- Burnet County1
- Caldwell County1
- Camp County1
- Cass County1
- Cherokee County1
- Comal County1
- DeWitt County1
- Dimmit County1
- Edwards County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Frio County1
- Gillespie County1
- Gonzales County1
- Gregg County1
- Guadalupe County1
- Harrison County1
- Hays County1
- Karnes County1
- Kendall County1
- Kerr County1
- Kinney County1
- Lavaca County1
- Lee County1
- Llano County1
- Marion County1
- Maverick County1
- Medina County1
- Morris County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Panola County1
- Real County1
- Red River County1
- Rusk County1
- Sabine County1
- San Augustine County1
- Shelby County1
- Smith County1
- Titus County1
- Travis County1
- Upshur County1
- Uvalde County1
- Val Verde County1
- Williamson County1
- Wilson County1
- Wood County1
- Zavala County1
- Jefferson County1
Nearby
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.