Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Texas, April 1998
5 tornado watches in April 1998. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- April 26, 19982 tornado watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Dickens and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Clay, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Knox, Montague, Wichita and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baylor, Borden, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Fisher and 15 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baylor County4
- Archer County3
- Knox County3
- Wichita County3
- Wilbarger County3
- Clay County3
- Montague County3
- Cottle County2
- Dickens County2
- Foard County2
- Hardeman County2
- King County2
- Motley County2
- Bosque County2
- Brown County2
- Comanche County2
- Cooke County2
- Denton County2
- Eastland County2
- Erath County2
- Grayson County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hood County2
- Jack County2
- Johnson County2
- Mills County2
- Palo Pinto County2
- Parker County2
- Somervell County2
- Stephens County2
- Tarrant County2
- Wise County2
- Young County2
- Shackelford County2
- Throckmorton County2
- Childress County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Hall County1
- Hemphill County1
- Lipscomb County1
35 more counties
- Wheeler County1
- Collin County1
- Dallas County1
- Delta County1
- Ellis County1
- Fannin County1
- Freestone County1
- Hill County1
- Hunt County1
- Kaufman County1
- Lamar County1
- Limestone County1
- McLennan County1
- Navarro County1
- Rains County1
- Rockwall County1
- Van Zandt County1
- Callahan County1
- Coleman County1
- Concho County1
- Coryell County1
- Lampasas County1
- McCulloch County1
- Menard County1
- San Saba County1
- Borden County1
- Crosby County1
- Fisher County1
- Floyd County1
- Garza County1
- Haskell County1
- Jones County1
- Kent County1
- Scurry County1
- Stonewall County1
Nearby
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.