Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Texas, February 1998
5 tornado watches in February 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 February 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- February 10, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Aransas, Austin, Bee, Brazoria, Brazos and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 10, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Brooks and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr, Willacy | 5 hr |
| Feb 25, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bell, Bexar and 31 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bee County3
- DeWitt County3
- Goliad County3
- Refugio County3
- Victoria County3
- Aransas County2
- Austin County2
- Brazos County2
- Burleson County2
- Calhoun County2
- Colorado County2
- Fayette County2
- Gonzales County2
- Grimes County2
- Jackson County2
- Jasper County2
- Lavaca County2
- Lee County2
- Leon County2
- Madison County2
- Robertson County2
- Washington County2
- Atascosa County2
- Bexar County2
- Brooks County2
- Frio County2
- Karnes County2
- La Salle County2
- Live Oak County2
- McMullen County2
- Wilson County2
- Angelina County1
- Brazoria County1
- Chambers County1
- Fort Bend County1
- Galveston County1
- Hardin County1
- Harris County1
- Houston County1
- Liberty County1
47 more counties
- Matagorda County1
- Montgomery County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Polk County1
- Sabine County1
- San Augustine County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Trinity County1
- Tyler County1
- Walker County1
- Waller County1
- Wharton County1
- Jefferson County1
- Newton County1
- Orange County1
- Bandera County1
- Dimmit County1
- Duval County1
- Edwards County1
- Jim Wells County1
- Kenedy County1
- Kinney County1
- Kleberg County1
- Maverick County1
- Medina County1
- Nueces County1
- Real County1
- San Patricio County1
- Uvalde County1
- Webb County1
- Zavala County1
- Cameron County1
- Hidalgo County1
- Jim Hogg County1
- Starr County1
- Willacy County1
- Bastrop County1
- Bell County1
- Blanco County1
- Caldwell County1
- Comal County1
- Falls County1
- Guadalupe County1
- Hays County1
- Milam County1
- Travis County1
- Williamson 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. Rebuilt daily.