Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings / 1986

Tornado Warnings in Texas, October 1986

11 tornado warnings in October 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 October 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
11
Busiest day
October 1, 19863 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 30, 7:02 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTRunnels58 min
Sep 30, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDTaylor50 min
Oct 1, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFCrane62 min
Oct 1, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACollingsworth64 min
Oct 2, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFAndrews, Gaines66 min
Oct 2, 6:33 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFUpton57 min
Oct 3, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFUpton64 min
Oct 6, 1:59 PM CDTTornado WarningCRPNueces61 min
Oct 7, 1:23 PM CDTTornado WarningBROCameron, Willacy37 min
Oct 7, 3:13 PM CDTTornado WarningBROCameron62 min
Oct 12, 5:26 AM CDTTornado WarningHGXMontgomery64 min

By county

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

Nearby

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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.