Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings / 2018
Tornado Warnings in Texas, May 2018
25 tornado warnings in May 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 25
- Busiest day
- May 3, 20187 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 10:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Crockett | 36 min |
| May 3, 3:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young | 48 min |
| May 3, 5:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 15 min |
| May 3, 5:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 18 min |
| May 3, 5:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 31 min |
| May 3, 5:19 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Wichita, Wilbarger | 26 min |
| May 3, 5:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 16 min |
| May 4, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Brooks | 31 min |
| May 14, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke | 28 min |
| May 14, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke | 16 min |
| May 17, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 33 min |
| May 17, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 21 min |
| May 18, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 34 min |
| May 20, 8:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Williamson | 27 min |
| May 22, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Brewster | 32 min |
| May 25, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | San Saba | 24 min |
| May 25, 8:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | San Saba | 38 min |
| May 25, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Mason | 49 min |
| May 25, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Kimble, Mason | 45 min |
| May 28, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hansford, Sherman | 43 min |
| May 28, 10:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Ochiltree, Roberts | 41 min |
| May 28, 11:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 20 min |
| May 29, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Gray, Wheeler | 44 min |
| May 29, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 40 min |
| May 30, 11:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 9 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wilbarger County5
- Ochiltree County3
- Coke County2
- Lipscomb County2
- San Saba County2
- Mason County2
- Wheeler County2
- Crockett County1
- Jack County1
- Palo Pinto County1
- Stephens County1
- Young County1
- Wichita County1
- Brooks County1
- Garza County1
- Kent County1
- Borden County1
- Scurry County1
- Williamson County1
- Brewster County1
- Kimble County1
- Hansford County1
- Sherman County1
- Roberts County1
- Gray County1
- Hemphill 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.