Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Texas, January 1998
2 tornado watches in January 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 January 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- January 11, 19981 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 4:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 21, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Brazoria, Brazos and 40 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Angelina County2
- Austin County2
- Bastrop County2
- Brazos County2
- Burleson County2
- Colorado County2
- DeWitt County2
- Fayette County2
- Grimes County2
- Houston County2
- Lavaca County2
- Lee County2
- Leon County2
- Madison County2
- Milam County2
- Montgomery County2
- Polk County2
- Robertson County2
- San Jacinto County2
- Trinity County2
- Walker County2
- Waller County2
- Washington County2
- Anderson County1
- Cherokee County1
- Goliad County1
- Gregg County1
- Harrison County1
- Marion County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Panola County1
- Rusk County1
- San Augustine County1
- Shelby County1
- Bell County1
- Brazoria County1
- Caldwell County1
- Chambers County1
- Falls County1
- Fort Bend 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.