Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings / 2026
Tornado Warnings in Texas, May 2026
13 tornado warnings in May 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 13
- Busiest day
- May 27, 20265 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 10, 3:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke | 51 min |
| May 10, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Runnels | 47 min |
| May 21, 3:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg | 27 min |
| May 22, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 19 min |
| May 22, 6:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Kenedy, Willacy | 41 min |
| May 26, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Frio, Zavala | 46 min |
| May 26, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Maverick | 17 min |
| May 26, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Maverick | 30 min |
| May 26, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 12 min |
| May 26, 9:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe | 42 min |
| May 26, 10:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Guadalupe | 28 min |
| May 26, 11:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca | 13 min |
| May 27, 1:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Austin, Fort Bend, Wharton | 8 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Maverick County2
- Guadalupe County2
- Gonzales County2
- Coke County1
- Runnels County1
- Duval County1
- Jim Wells County1
- Kleberg County1
- Hale County1
- Kenedy County1
- Willacy County1
- Frio County1
- Zavala County1
- Atascosa County1
- Bexar County1
- Comal County1
- Fayette County1
- Lavaca County1
- Austin County1
- Fort Bend County1
- Wharton County1
Nearby
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.