Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings / 2020
Tornado Warnings in Texas, May 2020
59 tornado warnings in May 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 59
- Busiest day
- May 12, 202014 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 12, 9:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell | 37 min |
| May 12, 9:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette | 23 min |
| May 12, 9:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 19 min |
| May 12, 10:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette, Lee | 27 min |
| May 12, 10:19 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 26 min |
| May 12, 10:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette | 24 min |
| May 12, 10:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 35 min |
| May 12, 10:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Kendall | 25 min |
| May 12, 10:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 37 min |
| May 12, 11:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lee | 35 min |
| May 12, 11:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 35 min |
| May 12, 11:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lee | 35 min |
| May 12, 12:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays | 19 min |
| May 12, 12:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Burleson | 50 min |
| May 15, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger | 32 min |
| May 15, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Archer | 39 min |
| May 15, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Zavala | 18 min |
| May 16, 6:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Newton, Orange | 26 min |
| May 16, 2:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass | 34 min |
| May 16, 3:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass | 37 min |
| May 16, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie | 50 min |
| May 16, 3:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass | 24 min |
| May 16, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie, Red River | 46 min |
| May 16, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie | 49 min |
| May 16, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass | 19 min |
| May 16, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie | 38 min |
| May 16, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie | 20 min |
| May 21, 10:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | San Saba | 35 min |
| May 22, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Wichita | 33 min |
| May 22, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Clay | 52 min |
| May 22, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Clay | 36 min |
| May 22, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Montague | 48 min |
| May 22, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Clay | 32 min |
| May 22, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Montague | 47 min |
| May 23, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Garza | 24 min |
| May 23, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Garza | 31 min |
| May 23, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Borden | 38 min |
| May 23, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Garza | 32 min |
| May 23, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Garza | 27 min |
| May 23, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Donley | 29 min |
| May 24, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery, Waller | 30 min |
| May 24, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Gray | 18 min |
| May 24, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 32 min |
| May 24, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Frio | 26 min |
| May 24, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 26 min |
| May 24, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe | 35 min |
| May 24, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Frio | 29 min |
| May 24, 11:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 27 min |
| May 24, 11:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca | 25 min |
| May 26, 12:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Duval | 15 min |
| May 26, 1:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata | 43 min |
| May 26, 1:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Starr | 31 min |
| May 27, 3:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Grimes, Harris, Montgomery, Waller, Washington | 24 min |
| May 27, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers, Galveston, Harris | 13 min |
| May 27, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr | 29 min |
| May 27, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kendall, Kerr | 26 min |
| May 28, 12:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 26 min |
| May 28, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Galveston | 24 min |
| May 28, 3:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 39 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bastrop County10
- Bowie County9
- Lee County6
- Fayette County4
- Cass County4
- Garza County4
- Bexar County3
- Comal County3
- Kendall County3
- Clay County3
- Harris County3
- Bandera County3
- Kerr County3
- Caldwell County2
- Archer County2
- Wichita County2
- Montague County2
- Montgomery County2
- Waller County2
- Medina County2
- Frio County2
- Starr County2
- Galveston County2
- Hays County1
- Burleson County1
- Baylor County1
- Wilbarger County1
- Zavala County1
- Newton County1
- Orange County1
- Red River County1
- San Saba County1
- Borden County1
- Donley County1
- Gray County1
- Guadalupe County1
- DeWitt County1
- Gonzales County1
- Lavaca County1
- Duval 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.