Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings / 1988

Tornado Warnings in Texas, May 1988

12 tornado warnings in May 1988. 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 1988. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 12
Busiest day: May 31, 19884 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 8, 6:27 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bosque	18 min
May 8, 6:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hill	39 min
May 10, 8:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Concho, Runnels, Tom Green	26 min
May 10, 8:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Concho, Tom Green	29 min
May 19, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews	48 min
May 19, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	65 min
May 20, 1:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Sterling	56 min
May 20, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Howard	60 min
May 30, 7:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Bailey	57 min
May 30, 9:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Castro, Parmer	28 min
May 30, 9:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	37 min
May 31, 1:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	57 min

By county

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

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 1987 1989

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. Rebuilt daily.