Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings / 1996
Tornado Warnings in Texas, May 1996
62 tornado warnings in May 1996. 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 1996. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 62
- Busiest day
- May 30, 199614 tornado warnings
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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 6, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hall | 50 min |
| May 9, 5:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Gray | 26 min |
| May 9, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Gray | 35 min |
| May 9, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 52 min |
| May 9, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 48 min |
| May 10, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Irion | 33 min |
| May 10, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 34 min |
| May 10, 9:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Concho, Tom Green | 46 min |
| May 11, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 20 min |
| May 13, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Mitchell | 29 min |
| May 24, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hansford, Hutchinson | 36 min |
| May 24, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 38 min |
| May 24, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 53 min |
| May 24, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Carson, Hutchinson | 53 min |
| May 24, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 31 min |
| May 24, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Randall | 45 min |
| May 25, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 47 min |
| May 25, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 65 min |
| May 25, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Dallam | 62 min |
| May 25, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 51 min |
| May 25, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 65 min |
| May 25, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lynn, Terry | 48 min |
| May 25, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 34 min |
| May 25, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Dallam | 61 min |
| May 25, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 64 min |
| May 25, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lynn | 48 min |
| May 25, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Borden | 64 min |
| May 25, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 47 min |
| May 25, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Garza | 32 min |
| May 25, 9:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Kent | 36 min |
| May 25, 10:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | King | 33 min |
| May 25, 11:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Foard, Knox | 27 min |
| May 25, 11:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Foard, Knox | 32 min |
| May 25, 11:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens | 33 min |
| May 25, 11:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman | 32 min |
| May 26, 12:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens, King, Motley | 34 min |
| May 26, 12:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cottle | 49 min |
| May 28, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke, Runnels | 48 min |
| May 28, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coleman | 60 min |
| May 29, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper | 66 min |
| May 29, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Irion | 65 min |
| May 29, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Irion | 59 min |
| May 29, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Martin | 63 min |
| May 29, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 60 min |
| May 29, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 47 min |
| May 29, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Irion | 62 min |
| May 29, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Irion, Tom Green | 63 min |
| May 29, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 60 min |
| May 29, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Menard | 65 min |
| May 29, 10:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 63 min |
| May 29, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Brown | 34 min |
| May 29, 11:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Kimble, Sutton | 48 min |
| May 30, 12:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell | 37 min |
| May 30, 2:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jones | 34 min |
| May 30, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Shackelford | 49 min |
| May 30, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 34 min |
| May 30, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 33 min |
| May 30, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 31 min |
| May 30, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche | 62 min |
| May 30, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Terrell | 32 min |
| May 30, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Sterling | 64 min |
| May 31, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Oldham | 50 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Irion County5
- Tom Green County4
- Lynn County3
- Foard County3
- Pecos County3
- Gray County2
- Wheeler County2
- Hutchinson County2
- Ochiltree County2
- Deaf Smith County2
- Dallam County2
- Gaines County2
- Oldham County2
- Garza County2
- King County2
- Knox County2
- Dickens County2
- Schleicher County2
- Hall County1
- Concho County1
- Fort Bend County1
- Mitchell County1
- Hansford County1
- Carson County1
- Briscoe County1
- Swisher County1
- Randall County1
- Parmer County1
- Terry County1
- Dawson County1
- Borden County1
- Kent County1
- Hardeman County1
- Motley County1
- Cottle County1
- Coke County1
- Runnels County1
- Coleman County1
- Jasper County1
- Martin 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. Rebuilt daily.