Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings / 1998
Tornado Warnings in Texas, January 1998
41 tornado warnings in January 1998. 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 January 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 41
- Busiest day
- January 21, 199815 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 7:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Erath | 56 min |
| Jan 4, 9:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Falls | 28 min |
| Jan 5, 4:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 40 min |
| Jan 5, 4:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | McCulloch, San Saba | 61 min |
| Jan 5, 5:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | San Saba | 61 min |
| Jan 5, 5:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Polk | 51 min |
| Jan 5, 6:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Mills | 54 min |
| Jan 5, 7:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 17 min |
| Jan 5, 10:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Smith | 57 min |
| Jan 5, 11:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Smith | 32 min |
| Jan 5, 11:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Upshur | 59 min |
| Jan 11, 4:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Fayette | 66 min |
| Jan 11, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Morris, Titus | 50 min |
| Jan 11, 4:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Cass | 65 min |
| Jan 11, 5:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lee | 63 min |
| Jan 11, 6:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 59 min |
| Jan 11, 6:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Washington | 69 min |
| Jan 11, 7:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Grimes | 59 min |
| Jan 11, 7:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 48 min |
| Jan 11, 8:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 34 min |
| Jan 12, 1:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 61 min |
| Jan 21, 1:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado | 62 min |
| Jan 21, 2:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lee | 52 min |
| Jan 21, 3:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Burleson | 60 min |
| Jan 21, 3:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Jackson | 62 min |
| Jan 21, 3:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Robertson | 52 min |
| Jan 21, 4:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Burleson | 46 min |
| Jan 21, 4:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Leon | 45 min |
| Jan 21, 4:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Madison | 63 min |
| Jan 21, 4:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes | 62 min |
| Jan 21, 4:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Leon | 62 min |
| Jan 21, 5:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper | 28 min |
| Jan 21, 5:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 64 min |
| Jan 21, 5:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery, Walker | 65 min |
| Jan 21, 5:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Newton | 50 min |
| Jan 21, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Houston, Madison | 66 min |
| Jan 21, 6:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Matagorda, Wharton | 68 min |
| Jan 21, 6:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Grimes, Montgomery | 49 min |
| Jan 21, 6:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | San Jacinto, Walker | 61 min |
| Jan 21, 9:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 34 min |
| Jan 31, 12:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 60 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Montgomery County4
- Burleson County3
- Grimes County3
- McCulloch County2
- San Saba County2
- Smith County2
- Lee County2
- Brazos County2
- Leon County2
- Madison County2
- Jasper County2
- Matagorda County2
- Walker County2
- Erath County1
- Falls County1
- Polk County1
- Mills County1
- Hamilton County1
- Upshur County1
- Fayette County1
- Morris County1
- Titus County1
- Cass County1
- Washington County1
- Liberty County1
- Austin County1
- Colorado County1
- Jackson County1
- Robertson County1
- Newton County1
- Houston County1
- Wharton County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Tyler County1
- Live Oak 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.