Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, May 1998
13 severe thunderstorm watches in May 1998. 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 severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- May 26, 19984 severe thunderstorm 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 2, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Clay, Cooke, Fannin, Grayson, Jack and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee and 39 more | 7 hr |
| May 3, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Grimes, Hardin and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Foard, Hardeman, Wichita, Wilbarger | 5 hr |
| May 15, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hardeman | 6 hr |
| May 15, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan and 35 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran and 32 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Childress and 37 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock and 14 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 14 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Morris, Nacogdoches and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Coke and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Bowie, Camp, Cass and 37 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wichita County4
- Bosque County4
- Brown County4
- Coleman County4
- Comanche County4
- Concho County4
- Coryell County4
- Hamilton County4
- Lampasas County4
- McCulloch County4
- Mills County4
- Runnels County4
- San Saba County4
- Archer County3
- Clay County3
- Grayson County3
- Jack County3
- Montague County3
- Young County3
- Cass County3
- Dallas County3
- Gregg County3
- Harrison County3
- Marion County3
- Morris County3
- Nacogdoches County3
- Panola County3
- Rusk County3
- Shelby County3
- Titus County3
- Upshur County3
- Hardeman County3
- Wilbarger County3
- Callahan County3
- Eastland County3
- Erath County3
- Hill County3
- Hood County3
- Parker County3
- Somervell County3
130 more counties
- Taylor County3
- Coke County3
- Irion County3
- Reagan County3
- Sterling County3
- Cooke County2
- Fannin County2
- Lamar County2
- Red River County2
- Anderson County2
- Bowie County2
- Camp County2
- Cherokee County2
- Ellis County2
- Falls County2
- Franklin County2
- Freestone County2
- Henderson County2
- Hopkins County2
- Houston County2
- Hunt County2
- Kaufman County2
- Leon County2
- Limestone County2
- Navarro County2
- Rains County2
- Rockwall County2
- Smith County2
- Van Zandt County2
- Wood County2
- Foard County2
- Baylor County2
- Bell County2
- Johnson County2
- McLennan County2
- Palo Pinto County2
- Shackelford County2
- Stephens County2
- Tarrant County2
- Throckmorton County2
- Wise County2
- Andrews County2
- Crane County2
- Ector County2
- Glasscock County2
- Howard County2
- Martin County2
- Midland County2
- Mitchell County2
- Upton County2
- Winkler County2
- Nolan County2
- Crockett County2
- Schleicher County2
- Sutton County2
- Tom Green County2
- Burnet County2
- Gillespie County2
- Kimble County2
- Llano County2
- Mason County2
- Menard County2
- Angelina County1
- Collin County1
- Delta County1
- Madison County1
- Robertson County1
- Sabine County1
- San Augustine County1
- Trinity County1
- Brazoria County1
- Chambers County1
- Fort Bend County1
- Galveston County1
- Grimes County1
- Hardin County1
- Harris County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Liberty County1
- Montgomery County1
- Newton County1
- Orange County1
- Polk County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Tyler County1
- Walker County1
- Waller County1
- Denton County1
- Bailey County1
- Borden County1
- Briscoe County1
- Castro County1
- Cochran County1
- Crosby County1
- Dawson County1
- Dickens County1
- Floyd County1
- Gaines County1
- Garza County1
- Hale County1
- Hall County1
- Hockley County1
- Kent County1
- Lamb County1
- Lubbock County1
- Lynn County1
- Motley County1
- Parmer County1
- Scurry County1
- Swisher County1
- Terry County1
- Yoakum County1
- Childress County1
- Cottle County1
- Fisher County1
- Haskell County1
- Jones County1
- King County1
- Knox County1
- Stonewall County1
- Pecos County1
- Bandera County1
- Blanco County1
- Edwards County1
- Kendall County1
- Kerr County1
- Real County1
- Terrell County1
- Val Verde 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.