Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings / 1986
Tornado Warnings in Texas, May 1986
80 tornado warnings in May 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.
Tornado Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 80
- Busiest day
- May 17, 198630 tornado warnings
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 1, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Brazos | 35 min |
| May 4, 11:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 55 min |
| May 6, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Callahan, Coleman | 70 min |
| May 6, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coleman | 55 min |
| May 6, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coleman | 62 min |
| May 7, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 58 min |
| May 7, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 58 min |
| May 8, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche | 33 min |
| May 9, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Concho | 60 min |
| May 13, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Nolan | 60 min |
| May 13, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Nolan | 40 min |
| May 13, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Fisher | 60 min |
| May 13, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jones | 53 min |
| May 13, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Haskell, Jones | 60 min |
| May 13, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 60 min |
| May 13, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Nolan | 55 min |
| May 13, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Fisher, Mitchell | 60 min |
| May 13, 11:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Stonewall | 65 min |
| May 14, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Dallam | 58 min |
| May 14, 2:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Randall | 34 min |
| May 14, 3:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 67 min |
| May 14, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Baylor | 60 min |
| May 14, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Archer | 60 min |
| May 14, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Archer | 8 min |
| May 14, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Clay | 60 min |
| May 14, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Montague | 60 min |
| May 14, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Montague | 25 min |
| May 16, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 63 min |
| May 16, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Swisher | 65 min |
| May 16, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Donley | 62 min |
| May 16, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cottle | 61 min |
| May 16, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Foard, Hardeman | 60 min |
| May 16, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Foard, Hardeman | 60 min |
| May 16, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Foard, Hardeman, Wilbarger | 60 min |
| May 16, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Foard, Wilbarger | 60 min |
| May 16, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hardeman | 35 min |
| May 16, 10:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wilbarger | 62 min |
| May 16, 11:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wichita | 60 min |
| May 17, 7:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Concho | 63 min |
| May 17, 9:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Brown | 60 min |
| May 17, 11:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | McLennan | 55 min |
| May 17, 11:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Burnet, Williamson | 66 min |
| May 17, 11:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Falls | 35 min |
| May 17, 12:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Limestone, Robertson | 56 min |
| May 17, 12:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Llano | 69 min |
| May 17, 12:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis | 68 min |
| May 17, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Tyler | 60 min |
| May 17, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 59 min |
| May 17, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 56 min |
| May 17, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 65 min |
| May 17, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 32 min |
| May 17, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 72 min |
| May 17, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 69 min |
| May 17, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 67 min |
| May 17, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 61 min |
| May 17, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 55 min |
| May 17, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Victoria | 80 min |
| May 17, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 63 min |
| May 17, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Goliad | 43 min |
| May 17, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 55 min |
| May 17, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 61 min |
| May 24, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Borden | 56 min |
| May 24, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 67 min |
| May 24, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Howard | 67 min |
| May 24, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Howard | 59 min |
| May 24, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Howard | 50 min |
| May 24, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Stonewall | 75 min |
| May 24, 9:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Midland | 67 min |
| May 24, 9:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Howard | 56 min |
| May 24, 9:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Mitchell, Scurry | 5 min |
| May 25, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 53 min |
| May 25, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Goliad | 64 min |
| May 25, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 25 min |
| May 27, 10:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Orange | 30 min |
| May 29, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 33 min |
| May 30, 2:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 54 min |
| May 31, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 61 min |
| May 31, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Upton | 56 min |
| May 31, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 56 min |
| May 31, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 57 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Foard County4
- Hardeman County4
- Lavaca County4
- Howard County4
- Coleman County3
- Nolan County3
- Wilbarger County3
- Concho County2
- Fisher County2
- Jones County2
- Mitchell County2
- Stonewall County2
- Armstrong County2
- Archer County2
- Montague County2
- Burnet County2
- Bastrop County2
- Fort Bend County2
- Goliad County2
- Lubbock County2
- Pecos County2
- Brazos County1
- Hale County1
- Callahan County1
- Hemphill County1
- Lipscomb County1
- Comanche County1
- Haskell County1
- Shackelford County1
- Throckmorton County1
- Dallam County1
- Randall County1
- Baylor County1
- Clay County1
- Briscoe County1
- Swisher County1
- Donley County1
- Cottle County1
- Wichita County1
- Brown County1
25 more counties
- McLennan County1
- Williamson County1
- Falls County1
- Limestone County1
- Robertson County1
- Blanco County1
- Llano County1
- Travis County1
- Tyler County1
- Guadalupe County1
- Gonzales County1
- DeWitt County1
- Victoria County1
- Brazoria County1
- Matagorda County1
- Borden County1
- Yoakum County1
- Midland County1
- Scurry County1
- Orange County1
- Dawson County1
- Gaines County1
- Crane County1
- Upton County1
- Tom Green 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.