Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings / 1998
Tornado Warnings in Texas, October 1998
76 tornado warnings in October 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 October 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 76
- Busiest day
- October 18, 199816 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 1:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 26 min |
| Oct 2, 1:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 23 min |
| Oct 2, 3:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Cass, Morris | 51 min |
| Oct 2, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Young | 28 min |
| Oct 2, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jack | 48 min |
| Oct 2, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Young | 17 min |
| Oct 2, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jack | 26 min |
| Oct 2, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Parker | 49 min |
| Oct 2, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Collin, Hunt | 46 min |
| Oct 2, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wise | 42 min |
| Oct 2, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 57 min |
| Oct 2, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Collin | 59 min |
| Oct 4, 1:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 31 min |
| Oct 5, 12:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 47 min |
| Oct 5, 1:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston, Harris | 28 min |
| Oct 5, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Crockett | 77 min |
| Oct 5, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 66 min |
| Oct 5, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Crockett | 77 min |
| Oct 5, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 50 min |
| Oct 6, 7:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 65 min |
| Oct 17, 10:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Navarro | 28 min |
| Oct 17, 11:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell, McLennan | 56 min |
| Oct 17, 11:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 48 min |
| Oct 17, 11:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 52 min |
| Oct 17, 12:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 34 min |
| Oct 17, 12:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 63 min |
| Oct 17, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 60 min |
| Oct 17, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hill | 30 min |
| Oct 17, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 62 min |
| Oct 17, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazos | 58 min |
| Oct 17, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Grimes, Madison | 47 min |
| Oct 17, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Victoria | 42 min |
| Oct 17, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Washington | 60 min |
| Oct 17, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Colorado | 57 min |
| Oct 18, 12:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris, Waller | 51 min |
| Oct 18, 3:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris, Waller | 39 min |
| Oct 18, 4:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 55 min |
| Oct 18, 5:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty, Montgomery | 31 min |
| Oct 18, 6:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Waller | 35 min |
| Oct 18, 6:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 57 min |
| Oct 18, 7:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 40 min |
| Oct 18, 7:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 61 min |
| Oct 18, 9:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers | 48 min |
| Oct 18, 10:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers | 32 min |
| Oct 18, 10:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Orange | 62 min |
| Oct 18, 10:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers | 63 min |
| Oct 18, 10:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 62 min |
| Oct 18, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Orange | 65 min |
| Oct 18, 12:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers | 32 min |
| Oct 27, 11:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 65 min |
| Oct 27, 12:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 60 min |
| Oct 27, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 60 min |
| Oct 27, 1:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EPZ | Duval | 60 min |
| Oct 27, 4:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Culberson | 31 min |
| Oct 27, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 30 min |
| Oct 27, 4:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Culberson | 31 min |
| Oct 27, 5:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 33 min |
| Oct 27, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves | 46 min |
| Oct 27, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Winkler | 46 min |
| Oct 27, 5:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 34 min |
| Oct 27, 6:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward | 32 min |
| Oct 27, 6:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 46 min |
| Oct 27, 6:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Winkler | 47 min |
| Oct 27, 6:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward | 47 min |
| Oct 27, 7:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward | 31 min |
| Oct 27, 7:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane | 46 min |
| Oct 30, 3:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 34 min |
| Oct 30, 3:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward | 50 min |
| Oct 30, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Winkler | 60 min |
| Oct 30, 6:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Loving | 51 min |
| Oct 30, 6:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 32 min |
| Oct 30, 6:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 17 min |
| Oct 30, 6:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro | 33 min |
| Oct 30, 7:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro, Swisher | 33 min |
| Oct 30, 7:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 51 min |
| Oct 30, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | AMA | Randall | 60 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Harris County7
- Chambers County4
- Reeves County4
- Ward County4
- Waller County3
- Liberty County3
- Loving County3
- Winkler County3
- Hopkins County2
- Young County2
- Jack County2
- Collin County2
- Brazoria County2
- Crockett County2
- Schleicher County2
- Navarro County2
- Kaufman County2
- Brazos County2
- Jasper County2
- Orange County2
- El Paso County2
- Hudspeth County2
- Culberson County2
- Andrews County2
- Gaines County2
- Parmer County2
- Castro County2
- Cass County1
- Morris County1
- Parker County1
- Hunt County1
- Wise County1
- Tarrant County1
- Galveston County1
- Fort Bend County1
- Coryell County1
- McLennan County1
- Henderson County1
- Caldwell County1
- Bastrop 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.