Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2023
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, May 2023
27 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 27
- Busiest day
- May 19, 20233 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 4, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 62 more | 7 hr |
| May 5, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 43 more | 8 hr |
| May 6, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay and 28 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 23 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke and 34 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dallam, Hartley, Oldham | 8 hr |
| May 12, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Borden, Brewster, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 38 more | 7 hr |
| May 12, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Jack, Knox and 5 more | 10 hr |
| May 12, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Dimmit and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Comanche, Cooke, Eastland, Erath, Hood, Jack and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 19, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bowie, Cass, Delta, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson and 6 more | 9 hr |
| May 19, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Coryell, Dallas and 20 more | 8 hr |
| May 19, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bandera, Blanco, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 39 more | 9 hr |
| May 22, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth and 21 more | 8 hr |
| May 22, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran and 24 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Childress, Clay and 38 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Dallam, Deaf Smith and 14 more | 9 hr |
| May 24, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson, Floyd and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio, Reeves | 6 hr |
| May 25, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley and 6 more | 8 hr |
| May 26, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bailey, Castro, Parmer | 5 hr |
| May 26, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Gaines, Hockley and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Ector, Gaines and 10 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb and 5 more | 4 hr |
| May 30, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Crane, Culberson and 16 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Eastland County9
- Callahan County8
- Coleman County8
- Comanche County8
- Erath County8
- Young County8
- Brown County7
- Coke County7
- Palo Pinto County7
- Runnels County7
- Shackelford County7
- Stephens County7
- Taylor County7
- Throckmorton County7
- Bailey County7
- Castro County7
- Parmer County7
- Hamilton County6
- Haskell County6
- Hood County6
- Jack County6
- Jones County6
- Mills County6
- Parker County6
- Somervell County6
- Nolan County6
- Oldham County6
- Cochran County6
- Gaines County6
- Hockley County6
- Lamb County6
- Terry County6
- Yoakum County6
- Bosque County5
- Concho County5
- Cooke County5
- Irion County5
- McCulloch County5
- Tom Green County5
- Wise County5
136 more counties
- Archer County5
- Baylor County5
- Fisher County5
- Knox County5
- Wilbarger County5
- Howard County5
- Mitchell County5
- Dallam County5
- Hartley County5
- Andrews County5
- Hale County5
- Deaf Smith County5
- Collin County4
- Crockett County4
- Denton County4
- Gillespie County4
- Grayson County4
- Hill County4
- Lampasas County4
- Menard County4
- San Saba County4
- Schleicher County4
- Clay County4
- Montague County4
- Wichita County4
- Borden County4
- Garza County4
- Kent County4
- Scurry County4
- Sterling County4
- Stonewall County4
- Crane County4
- Ector County4
- Loving County4
- Martin County4
- Midland County4
- Pecos County4
- Reeves County4
- Ward County4
- Winkler County4
- Lubbock County4
- Lynn County4
- Swisher County4
- Potter County4
- Randall County4
- Bandera County3
- Bell County3
- Burnet County3
- Coryell County3
- Edwards County3
- Fannin County3
- Hunt County3
- Kerr County3
- Kimble County3
- Kinney County3
- Llano County3
- McLennan County3
- Mason County3
- Navarro County3
- Real County3
- Sutton County3
- Val Verde County3
- Blanco County3
- Dallas County3
- Ellis County3
- Johnson County3
- Rockwall County3
- Tarrant County3
- Foard County3
- Glasscock County3
- Hardeman County3
- King County3
- Reagan County3
- Brewster County3
- Terrell County3
- Upton County3
- Armstrong County3
- Crosby County3
- Floyd County3
- Dawson County3
- Moore County3
- Sherman County3
- Culberson County3
- Dimmit County2
- Falls County2
- Frio County2
- Maverick County2
- Medina County2
- Milam County2
- Uvalde County2
- Zavala County2
- Delta County2
- Henderson County2
- Hopkins County2
- Kaufman County2
- Lamar County2
- Rains County2
- Van Zandt County2
- Kendall County2
- Briscoe County2
- Childress County2
- Cottle County2
- Dickens County2
- Hall County2
- Motley County2
- Jeff Davis County2
- Presidio County2
- Hansford County2
- Hutchinson County2
- Freestone County1
- Leon County1
- Limestone County1
- Robertson County1
- Bastrop County1
- Hays County1
- Lee County1
- Travis County1
- Williamson County1
- Atascosa County1
- Bexar County1
- Comal County1
- La Salle County1
- McMullen County1
- Webb County1
- Bowie County1
- Cass County1
- Franklin County1
- Morris County1
- Red River County1
- Titus County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Donley County1
- Gray County1
- Wheeler County1
- Carson County1
- Ochiltree 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.