High Wind Watches in Texas
860 high wind 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 high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 860
- Busiest year
- 201960 high wind watches
- Average year
- 39over 22 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.
- Culberson County236
- Deaf Smith County63
- Oldham County63
- Potter County61
- Randall County61
- Dallam County59
- Hartley County59
- Moore County57
- Sherman County57
- Carson County55
- Armstrong County53
- Bailey County53
- Cochran County53
- Hockley County53
- Parmer County53
- Lamb County52
- Castro County51
- Hale County51
- Hansford County51
- Hutchinson County51
- Swisher County50
- Lubbock County49
- Briscoe County46
- Ochiltree County46
- Brewster County46
- Jeff Davis County46
- Presidio County46
- Floyd County45
- Gray County44
- Roberts County44
- Terry County43
- Hemphill County42
- Yoakum County42
- Donley County41
- Lipscomb County41
- Lynn County41
- El Paso County41
- Crosby County40
- Wheeler County39
- Collingsworth County37
119 more counties
- Garza County33
- Motley County33
- Hall County32
- Hudspeth County32
- Loving County31
- Dickens County30
- Cottle County29
- Childress County28
- King County27
- Gaines County26
- Winkler County25
- Andrews County25
- Reeves County25
- Ward County24
- Kent County24
- Stonewall County22
- Dawson County22
- Martin County22
- Ector County21
- Midland County21
- Howard County19
- Borden County18
- Crane County16
- Mitchell County16
- Scurry County16
- Upton County16
- Pecos County15
- Foard County13
- Hardeman County13
- Glasscock County13
- Wilbarger County12
- Reagan County12
- Knox County11
- Wichita County10
- Archer County9
- Baylor County9
- Fisher County7
- Nolan County7
- Haskell County6
- Jones County6
- Taylor County6
- Throckmorton County6
- Terrell County6
- Callahan County5
- Clay County5
- Shackelford County5
- Coke County5
- Sterling County5
- Irion County4
- Runnels County4
- Tom Green County4
- Coleman County2
- Concho County2
- Bosque County2
- Brooks County2
- Collin County2
- Comanche County2
- Cooke County2
- Dallas County2
- Denton County2
- Eastland County2
- Ellis County2
- Erath County2
- Grayson County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hidalgo County2
- Hill County2
- Hood County2
- Jack County2
- Jim Hogg County2
- Jim Wells County2
- Johnson County2
- Kleberg County2
- Mills County2
- Montague County2
- Nueces County2
- Palo Pinto County2
- Parker County2
- Rockwall County2
- San Patricio County2
- Somervell County2
- Starr County2
- Stephens County2
- Tarrant County2
- Wise County2
- Young County2
- Zapata County2
- Anderson County1
- Bell County1
- Cameron County1
- Coryell County1
- Delta County1
- Falls County1
- Fannin County1
- Freestone County1
- Henderson County1
- Hopkins County1
- Hunt County1
- Kaufman County1
- Kenedy County1
- Lamar County1
- Lampasas County1
- Leon County1
- Limestone County1
- McLennan County1
- Milam County1
- Navarro County1
- Rains County1
- Robertson County1
- Van Zandt County1
- Willacy County1
- Crockett County1
- Bee County1
- Duval County1
- La Salle County1
- Live Oak County1
- McMullen County1
- Webb County1
- Brown County1
The latest high wind watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 1:30 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 12 hr |
| Apr 24, 12:07 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 22 hr |
| Apr 22, 12:44 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 24 hr |
| Apr 17, 12:05 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 12 hr |
| Apr 13, 12:58 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 25 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:19 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 10 hr |
| Mar 26, 3:30 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 11 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:25 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | OUN | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:10 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 13, 10:41 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more | 27 hr |
| Mar 13, 10:07 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 27 hr |
| Feb 18, 9:51 PM CST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Culberson | 21 hr |
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. Rebuilt daily.