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Tornado Warnings in Texas, May 2016

82 tornado warnings in May 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
82
Busiest day
May 23, 201610 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFannin, Lamar29 min
May 9, 6:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDLamar54 min
May 9, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDLamar31 min
May 9, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVRed River45 min
May 9, 8:08 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDLamar37 min
May 9, 8:33 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDLamar27 min
May 9, 8:43 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVRed River47 min
May 9, 8:44 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDLamar16 min
May 9, 8:52 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVBowie, Red River53 min
May 9, 8:57 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVRed River48 min
May 9, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVBowie45 min
May 9, 10:30 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVBowie45 min
May 11, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTShackelford33 min
May 14, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningBROHidalgo, Willacy21 min
May 14, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningBROCameron, Hidalgo23 min
May 16, 5:20 PM CDTTornado WarningAMADallam25 min
May 16, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningAMADallam, Hartley38 min
May 16, 5:42 PM CDTTornado WarningAMADallam, Sherman48 min
May 16, 6:11 PM CDTTornado WarningAMASherman35 min
May 16, 8:56 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedAMAHemphill34 min
May 16, 9:29 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHemphill16 min
May 17, 2:59 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFReagan, Upton31 min
May 17, 4:51 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFCrane, Pecos, Upton24 min
May 17, 5:05 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTCrockett, Schleicher40 min
May 19, 2:40 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXBrazoria, Galveston35 min
May 22, 5:34 PM CDTTornado WarningAMADonley26 min
May 22, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBHall34 min
May 22, 6:22 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMAFHoward23 min
May 22, 6:23 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBHall37 min
May 22, 6:29 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHansford, Ochiltree46 min
May 22, 6:44 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatMAFGlasscock, Howard31 min
May 22, 6:46 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAOchiltree44 min
May 22, 6:58 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatLUBChildress, Hall32 min
May 22, 7:14 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFGlasscock, Howard31 min
May 22, 7:27 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedAMAOchiltree33 min
May 22, 7:41 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMAFGlasscock, Howard34 min
May 22, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAOchiltree, Roberts50 min
May 22, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFGlasscock32 min
May 22, 8:41 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedAMAHemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts27 min
May 22, 8:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFGlasscock33 min
May 22, 9:10 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMAFGlasscock35 min
May 22, 9:41 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFGlasscock34 min
May 23, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFTerrell32 min
May 23, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFTerrell28 min
May 23, 7:35 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXVal Verde40 min
May 23, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningAMADonley, Gray30 min
May 23, 9:23 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBHall, Motley22 min
May 23, 9:44 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatLUBHall, Motley31 min
May 23, 9:56 PM CDTTornado WarningAMADonley21 min
May 23, 10:03 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatLUBHall16 min
May 24, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts63 min
May 24, 7:01 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAArmstrong27 min
May 26, 12:20 AM CDTTornado WarningMAFPecos25 min
May 26, 1:11 AM CDTTornado WarningMAFPecos26 min
May 26, 12:32 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXBrazos, Grimes, Madison28 min
May 26, 12:55 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXBrazos, Grimes, Madison35 min
May 26, 1:47 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXGrimes, Madison, Walker28 min
May 26, 2:29 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXBrazos, Burleson, Grimes, Washington31 min
May 26, 2:54 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXBrazos, Burleson, Grimes, Waller, Washington36 min
May 26, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXFayette32 min
May 26, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXAustin, Grimes, Waller, Washington31 min
May 26, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTCallahan, Shackelford44 min
May 26, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDEastland, Stephens45 min
May 26, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTBrown, Callahan, Coleman31 min
May 26, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTBrown, Callahan, Coleman30 min
May 26, 8:28 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedAMALipscomb17 min
May 26, 8:38 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDComanche37 min
May 26, 8:48 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNFoard27 min
May 27, 12:47 AM CDTTornado WarningEWXBastrop28 min
May 27, 2:36 AM CDTTornado WarningHGXBurleson, Washington24 min
May 27, 2:58 AM CDTTornado WarningHGXChambers, Harris12 min
May 28, 7:34 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTKimble, Mason41 min
May 29, 7:35 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBaylor25 min
May 29, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTThrockmorton36 min
May 29, 8:15 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedSJTThrockmorton45 min
May 29, 8:20 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFWDYoung25 min
May 29, 9:35 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTShackelford25 min
May 31, 5:47 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedCRPBee, Live Oak28 min
May 31, 6:02 PM CDTTornado WarningCRPBee28 min
May 31, 6:19 PM CDTTornado WarningCRPKleberg26 min
May 31, 6:28 PM CDTTornado WarningCRPBee16 min
May 31, 6:51 PM CDTTornado WarningCRPKleberg24 min

By county

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

22 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.