Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2001
Tornado Watches in Texas, December 2001
4 tornado watches in December 2001. 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 December 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- December 17, 20012 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 13, 12:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Hardin, Harris, Jasper and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 16, 1:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Brazos, Cherokee, Freestone, Gregg and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 16, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Chambers, Cherokee, Gregg, Grimes and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 16, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange and 1 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chambers County3
- Hardin County3
- Jasper County3
- Jefferson County3
- Newton County3
- Orange County3
- Sabine County3
- Harris County2
- Liberty County2
- Angelina County2
- Cherokee County2
- Gregg County2
- Harrison County2
- Houston County2
- Madison County2
- Nacogdoches County2
- Panola County2
- Rusk County2
- San Augustine County2
- Shelby County2
- Smith County2
- Trinity County2
- Brazoria County1
- Galveston County1
- Anderson County1
- Brazos County1
- Freestone County1
- Henderson County1
- Leon County1
- Limestone County1
- Navarro County1
- Robertson County1
- Austin County1
- Grimes County1
- Marion County1
- Montgomery County1
- Polk County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Tyler County1
- Upshur County1
3 more counties
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.