Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Texas, May 1998
14 tornado watches in May 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 14
- Busiest day
- May 9, 19984 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson, Burnet and 21 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Archer, Bailey, Baylor, Borden, Callahan and 42 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth and 19 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Collin, Cooke and 25 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Coleman, Comanche and 15 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 12:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Cass | 6 hr |
| May 14, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Donley and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 15, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baylor, Borden, Coke, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 25 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Borden, Callahan, Cottle, Dickens and 21 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 25 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Cochran, Coke, Concho and 22 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 6 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baylor County5
- Nolan County5
- Shackelford County5
- Taylor County5
- Throckmorton County5
- Archer County4
- Borden County4
- Callahan County4
- Cottle County4
- Dickens County4
- Garza County4
- Hardeman County4
- Haskell County4
- Howard County4
- Jones County4
- Kent County4
- King County4
- Knox County4
- Martin County4
- Mitchell County4
- Motley County4
- Stonewall County4
- Wichita County4
- Wilbarger County4
- Young County4
- Andrews County3
- Clay County3
- Crosby County3
- Eastland County3
- Erath County3
- Fisher County3
- Foard County3
- Gaines County3
- Jack County3
- Palo Pinto County3
- Scurry County3
- Stephens County3
- Concho County3
- Bowie County3
- Cass County3
122 more counties
- Coke County3
- Glasscock County3
- Midland County3
- Runnels County3
- Bell County2
- Bosque County2
- Burnet County2
- Coryell County2
- Ellis County2
- Hamilton County2
- Henderson County2
- Hill County2
- Hood County2
- Johnson County2
- Lampasas County2
- McLennan County2
- Navarro County2
- Somervell County2
- Williamson County2
- Bailey County2
- Cochran County2
- Dawson County2
- Floyd County2
- Hockley County2
- Lynn County2
- Terry County2
- Yoakum County2
- Childress County2
- Collingsworth County2
- Donley County2
- Gray County2
- Hall County2
- Hemphill County2
- Lipscomb County2
- Wheeler County2
- Montague County2
- Wise County2
- Brown County2
- Coleman County2
- Comanche County2
- McCulloch County2
- Menard County2
- Mills County2
- San Saba County2
- Sutton County2
- Camp County2
- Gregg County2
- Harrison County2
- Marion County2
- Morris County2
- Rusk County2
- Smith County2
- Titus County2
- Upshur County2
- Sterling County2
- Tom Green County2
- Ector County2
- Reagan County2
- Blanco County1
- Brazos County1
- Burleson County1
- Falls County1
- Freestone County1
- Lee County1
- Leon County1
- Limestone County1
- Milam County1
- Robertson County1
- Travis County1
- Washington County1
- Hale County1
- Lamb County1
- Lubbock County1
- Armstrong County1
- Briscoe County1
- Carson County1
- Castro County1
- Dallam County1
- Deaf Smith County1
- Hansford County1
- Hartley County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Moore County1
- Ochiltree County1
- Oldham County1
- Potter County1
- Randall County1
- Roberts County1
- Sherman County1
- Swisher County1
- Collin County1
- Cooke County1
- Dallas County1
- Denton County1
- Fannin County1
- Grayson County1
- Hunt County1
- Kaufman County1
- Lamar County1
- Parker County1
- Rockwall County1
- Tarrant County1
- Llano County1
- Mason County1
- Franklin County1
- Hopkins County1
- Rains County1
- Red River County1
- Van Zandt County1
- Wood County1
- Crane County1
- Crockett County1
- Loving County1
- Pecos County1
- Terrell County1
- Upton County1
- Ward County1
- Winkler County1
- Irion County1
- Kimble County1
- Schleicher County1
- Panola 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.