Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2020

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, May 2020

34 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Watches
34
Busiest day
May 8, 20204 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCollin, Cooke, Denton, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt and 2 more4 hr
May 7, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cottle and 12 more5 hr
May 7, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCGray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts, Wheeler7 hr
May 7, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCEllis, Jack, Johnson, Palo Pinto, Parker, Tarrant and 2 more4 hr
May 8, 3:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Cooke, Delta and 16 more7 hr
May 8, 1:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCNewton, Orange6 hr
May 11, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndrews, Borden, Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Dawson and 16 more6 hr
May 11, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Cochran and 22 more5 hr
May 13, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArmstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth and 28 more9 hr
May 13, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndrews, Borden, Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett and 23 more7 hr
May 15, 1:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Fannin, Foard and 8 more8 hr
May 15, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndrews, Bandera, Borden, Brewster, Brown, Callahan and 66 more7 hr
May 15, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAransas, Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee, Bell and 66 more7 hr
May 16, 12:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAustin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 6 more4 hr
May 20, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Callahan, Castro and 58 more8 hr
May 21, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCallahan, Childress, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Cottle and 21 more8 hr
May 21, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCLipscomb, Ochiltree8 hr
May 22, 1:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Haskell and 11 more6 hr
May 22, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Denton and 17 more8 hr
May 22, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Morris, Red River and 1 more8 hr
May 23, 2:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBorden, Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 19 more8 hr
May 23, 3:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArmstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 27 more7 hr
May 23, 9:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Haskell, Jack, Jones and 8 more4 hr
May 24, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBorden, Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 19 more6 hr
May 24, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArmstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 23 more7 hr
May 24, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Brooks, Dimmit, Duval and 17 more6 hr
May 24, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBlanco, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coleman, Comal and 19 more5 hr
May 24, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAransas, Bastrop, Bee, Caldwell, Calhoun, DeWitt and 16 more7 hr
May 24, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more4 hr
May 25, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Brooks, DeWitt and 25 more8 hr
May 27, 1:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAustin, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brazoria and 42 more9 hr
May 27, 1:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Callahan, Coleman, Concho, Kimble, McCulloch and 5 more7 hr
May 27, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 22 more8 hr
May 28, 2:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Dimmit and 16 more5 hr

By county

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

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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.