Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2001
Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2001
15 tornado watches in May 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 May 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 15
- Busiest day
- May 6, 20013 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 3, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Dickens and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bandera, Brown, Concho, Dimmit, Edwards, Gillespie and 15 more | 5 hr |
| May 4, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bosque, Clay, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Dallas and 14 more | 4 hr |
| May 5, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, King and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Coleman and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 25 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Dimmit, Duval, Frio and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth and 22 more | 7 hr |
| May 19, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Foard and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Borden, Briscoe, Callahan, Castro, Childress, Coke and 27 more | 5 hr |
| May 29, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 24 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson, Childress and 35 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 1:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Foard, Hardeman, Wheeler and 2 more | 3 hr |
| May 30, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cooke, Fannin, Grayson, Lamar, Montague, Red River | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County7
- Briscoe County5
- Floyd County5
- Motley County5
- Swisher County5
- Jack County5
- Montague County5
- Wichita County5
- Foard County5
- Childress County5
- Castro County4
- Hale County4
- Lamb County4
- Archer County4
- Baylor County4
- Haskell County4
- Wise County4
- Young County4
- Cooke County4
- Hardeman County4
- Wilbarger County4
- Collingsworth County4
- Cottle County4
- Hall County4
- Crosby County3
- Dickens County3
- Garza County3
- Kent County3
- Parmer County3
- Brown County3
- Coleman County3
- Palo Pinto County3
- Runnels County3
- Throckmorton County3
- Denton County3
- Grayson County3
- King County3
- Knox County3
- Armstrong County3
- Carson County3
111 more counties
- Donley County3
- Gray County3
- Hansford County3
- Hutchinson County3
- Moore County3
- Ochiltree County3
- Potter County3
- Randall County3
- Roberts County3
- Sherman County3
- Bailey County2
- Lubbock County2
- Lynn County2
- Callahan County2
- Coke County2
- Eastland County2
- Jones County2
- Nolan County2
- Stephens County2
- Taylor County2
- Bandera County2
- Concho County2
- Dimmit County2
- Edwards County2
- Gillespie County2
- Kerr County2
- Kimble County2
- Kinney County2
- Llano County2
- McCulloch County2
- Mason County2
- Maverick County2
- Medina County2
- Menard County2
- Mills County2
- Real County2
- San Saba County2
- Sutton County2
- Uvalde County2
- Zavala County2
- Bosque County2
- Collin County2
- Comanche County2
- Dallas County2
- Ellis County2
- Erath County2
- Hill County2
- Hood County2
- Johnson County2
- Parker County2
- Tarrant County2
- Fannin County2
- Lamar County2
- Red River County2
- Dallam County2
- Deaf Smith County2
- Hartley County2
- Oldham County2
- Stonewall County2
- Wheeler County2
- Cochran County1
- Hockley County1
- Terry County1
- Yoakum County1
- Shackelford County1
- Somervell County1
- Bell County1
- Blanco County1
- Burnet County1
- Comal County1
- Coryell County1
- Falls County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hays County1
- Kendall County1
- Lampasas County1
- Limestone County1
- McLennan County1
- Navarro County1
- Schleicher County1
- Travis County1
- Val Verde County1
- Williamson County1
- Delta County1
- Franklin County1
- Hopkins County1
- Hunt County1
- Kaufman County1
- Rains County1
- Rockwall County1
- Van Zandt County1
- Wood County1
- Atascosa County1
- Bexar County1
- Duval County1
- Frio County1
- Jim Wells County1
- La Salle County1
- Live Oak County1
- McMullen County1
- Nueces County1
- Webb County1
- Borden County1
- Fisher County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Scurry County1
- Sterling County1
- Tom Green County1
- Hemphill County1
- Lipscomb 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.