Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings / 2003
Tornado Warnings in Texas, May 2003
61 tornado warnings in May 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 61
- Busiest day
- May 16, 200324 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 1, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Mason | 59 min |
| May 1, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Mason | 58 min |
| May 1, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Kimble | 57 min |
| May 1, 10:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie | 53 min |
| May 2, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 60 min |
| May 2, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | McCulloch, San Saba | 54 min |
| May 2, 6:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Llano | 41 min |
| May 3, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Haskell | 57 min |
| May 3, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 10 min |
| May 3, 7:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Haskell | 53 min |
| May 3, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 64 min |
| May 3, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Haskell | 31 min |
| May 6, 11:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Wood | 64 min |
| May 7, 12:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Upshur | 56 min |
| May 7, 12:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Harrison, Marion | 61 min |
| May 7, 1:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Harrison, Marion | 46 min |
| May 7, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones, Shackelford | 65 min |
| May 7, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan, Shackelford | 47 min |
| May 7, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan, Shackelford | 42 min |
| May 7, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 48 min |
| May 7, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 45 min |
| May 7, 10:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 23 min |
| May 9, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 64 min |
| May 9, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Crockett | 66 min |
| May 12, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Brewster | 47 min |
| May 13, 10:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Marion | 40 min |
| May 14, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie | 59 min |
| May 14, 9:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Cass | 51 min |
| May 15, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley | 46 min |
| May 15, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Dallam | 62 min |
| May 15, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Sherman | 64 min |
| May 15, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher | 66 min |
| May 15, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Moore, Sherman | 66 min |
| May 15, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher | 34 min |
| May 15, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones | 62 min |
| May 15, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Donley | 29 min |
| May 15, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Carson, Hutchinson | 57 min |
| May 15, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 54 min |
| May 15, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Donley, Gray, Wheeler | 62 min |
| May 15, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hansford | 61 min |
| May 15, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Moore, Sherman | 64 min |
| May 15, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Taylor | 25 min |
| May 15, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 60 min |
| May 15, 8:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan, Jones, Shackelford | 67 min |
| May 15, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Carson | 44 min |
| May 15, 9:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Donley, Gray | 39 min |
| May 15, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 63 min |
| May 15, 9:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hansford | 54 min |
| May 15, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Roberts | 60 min |
| May 15, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Gray, Wheeler | 61 min |
| May 15, 9:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan, Shackelford | 36 min |
| May 15, 10:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 44 min |
| May 15, 10:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Donley | 67 min |
| May 15, 10:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Gray, Wheeler | 62 min |
| May 15, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 45 min |
| May 15, 11:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 57 min |
| May 16, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Madison | 31 min |
| May 24, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Gray, Roberts | 62 min |
| May 24, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Delta | 39 min |
| May 24, 8:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lamb | 24 min |
| May 24, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hockley | 50 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Shackelford County6
- Gray County5
- Callahan County4
- Eastland County4
- Donley County4
- Haskell County3
- Marion County3
- Jones County3
- Sherman County3
- Wheeler County3
- Mason County2
- Bowie County2
- McCulloch County2
- Harrison County2
- Dallam County2
- Fisher County2
- Moore County2
- Carson County2
- Hutchinson County2
- Hansford County2
- Roberts County2
- Stephens County2
- Kimble County1
- San Saba County1
- Llano County1
- Stonewall County1
- Throckmorton County1
- Wood County1
- Upshur County1
- Wilbarger County1
- Pecos County1
- Crockett County1
- Brewster County1
- Cass County1
- Hartley County1
- Armstrong County1
- Taylor County1
- Ochiltree County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Madison County1
3 more counties
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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.