Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Texas, March 1998
9 tornado watches in March 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 March 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- March 30, 19983 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 3:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler | 6 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Nacogdoches, Panola and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 1:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Blanco and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 16, 5:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 19, 1:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 11:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hansford and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cooke, Fannin, Grayson, Montague | 7 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Collin, Comanche, Coryell, Dallas and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Cass, Harrison, Marion, Nacogdoches, Panola and 5 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Marion County3
- Tyler County2
- Angelina County2
- Gregg County2
- Harrison County2
- Nacogdoches County2
- Panola County2
- Rusk County2
- Sabine County2
- San Augustine County2
- Shelby County2
- Upshur County2
- Austin County2
- Grimes County2
- Cass County2
- Ellis County2
- Fannin County2
- Hill County2
- Hunt County2
- Kaufman County2
- Navarro County2
- Rockwall County2
- Hardin County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Newton County1
- Orange County1
- Atascosa County1
- Bastrop County1
- Bee County1
- Bexar County1
- Blanco County1
- Brazos County1
- Burleson County1
- Burnet County1
- Caldwell County1
- Colorado County1
- Comal County1
- DeWitt County1
- Duval County1
101 more counties
- Fayette County1
- Frio County1
- Goliad County1
- Gonzales County1
- Guadalupe County1
- Hays County1
- Jim Wells County1
- Karnes County1
- Kendall County1
- Kleberg County1
- La Salle County1
- Lavaca County1
- Lee County1
- Live Oak County1
- McMullen County1
- Milam County1
- Nueces County1
- Refugio County1
- San Patricio County1
- Travis County1
- Victoria County1
- Washington County1
- Webb County1
- Williamson County1
- Wilson County1
- Brazoria County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chambers County1
- Fort Bend County1
- Galveston County1
- Harris County1
- Liberty County1
- Matagorda County1
- Montgomery County1
- Polk County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Walker County1
- Waller County1
- Wharton County1
- Anderson County1
- Bowie County1
- Camp County1
- Cherokee County1
- Delta County1
- Franklin County1
- Freestone County1
- Henderson County1
- Hopkins County1
- Lamar County1
- Morris County1
- Rains County1
- Red River County1
- Smith County1
- Titus County1
- Van Zandt County1
- Wood County1
- Armstrong County1
- Carson County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Donley County1
- Gray County1
- Hansford County1
- Hemphill County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Lipscomb County1
- Moore County1
- Ochiltree County1
- Potter County1
- Randall County1
- Roberts County1
- Sherman County1
- Wheeler County1
- Clay County1
- Cooke County1
- Grayson County1
- Montague County1
- Bosque County1
- Brown County1
- Collin County1
- Comanche County1
- Coryell County1
- Dallas County1
- Denton County1
- Eastland County1
- Erath County1
- Falls County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hood County1
- Jack County1
- Johnson County1
- Lampasas County1
- Limestone County1
- McLennan County1
- Mills County1
- Palo Pinto County1
- Parker County1
- San Saba County1
- Somervell County1
- Tarrant County1
- Wise County1
- Trinity County1
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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.