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Tornado Warnings in Texas, May 2023

37 tornado warnings in May 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
37
Busiest day
May 12, 20238 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 4, 6:52 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedSJTBrown23 min
May 4, 7:11 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOUNClay19 min
May 4, 7:19 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDMontague41 min
May 4, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCooke, Montague39 min
May 6, 6:18 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTBrown42 min
May 6, 7:03 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTBrown17 min
May 6, 7:33 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTBrown42 min
May 6, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTBrown, San Saba44 min
May 8, 2:57 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHHardin, Jasper, Newton33 min
May 8, 3:11 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHHardin, Jefferson, Orange34 min
May 8, 4:36 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHOrange24 min
May 8, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXFayette32 min
May 11, 1:03 AM CDTTornado WarningAMADeaf Smith24 min
May 11, 6:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDJack32 min
May 11, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDMontague37 min
May 11, 7:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDJack49 min
May 11, 7:38 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDWise37 min
May 11, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDJack16 min
May 11, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDWise25 min
May 11, 9:09 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDPalo Pinto51 min
May 11, 9:44 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDPalo Pinto31 min
May 11, 11:01 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDPalo Pinto23 min
May 11, 11:47 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDPalo Pinto28 min
May 12, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXDimmit, Maverick, Zavala35 min
May 13, 4:04 AM CDTTornado WarningBROCameron26 min
May 18, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAPotter60 min
May 18, 7:01 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACarson, Potter59 min
May 18, 9:26 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACarson43 min
May 22, 8:29 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAOchiltree46 min
May 23, 3:22 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXMontgomery, San Jacinto23 min
May 23, 9:24 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedSJTJones36 min
May 24, 11:53 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBLamb24 min
May 28, 12:12 AM CDTTornado WarningEWXKinney, Maverick, Uvalde20 min
May 28, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHansford, Sherman44 min
May 28, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBSwisher30 min
May 28, 6:34 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHansford, Sherman56 min
May 28, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningAMADallam, Sherman60 min

By county

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

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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.