Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Texas, April 2002
9 tornado watches in April 2002. 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 April 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- April 7, 20023 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Comanche, Coryell, Dallas, Denton and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 7, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Frio, Gillespie and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 12, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Donley and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 13, 5:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Clay, Collin and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Camp, Delta, Fannin, Franklin, Gregg, Henderson and 12 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 17, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Dickens and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 20, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Wichita | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lampasas County3
- San Saba County3
- Childress County3
- Collingsworth County3
- Donley County3
- Gray County3
- Hall County3
- Motley County3
- Wheeler County3
- Wichita County3
- Bosque County2
- Brown County2
- Comanche County2
- Coryell County2
- Dallas County2
- Denton County2
- Eastland County2
- Erath County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hill County2
- Hood County2
- Jack County2
- Johnson County2
- McCulloch County2
- McLennan County2
- Mills County2
- Palo Pinto County2
- Parker County2
- Somervell County2
- Stephens County2
- Tarrant County2
- Wise County2
- Young County2
- Armstrong County2
- Briscoe County2
- Carson County2
- Hartley County2
- Hemphill County2
- Oldham County2
- Potter County2
97 more counties
- Randall County2
- Roberts County2
- Swisher County2
- Cottle County2
- Archer County2
- Fannin County2
- Hunt County2
- Kaufman County2
- Borden County1
- Callahan County1
- Coke County1
- Coleman County1
- Concho County1
- Crockett County1
- Edwards County1
- Fisher County1
- Garza County1
- Glasscock County1
- Haskell County1
- Howard County1
- Irion County1
- Jones County1
- Kent County1
- Kimble County1
- Kinney County1
- Menard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Nolan County1
- Reagan County1
- Real County1
- Runnels County1
- Schleicher County1
- Scurry County1
- Shackelford County1
- Sterling County1
- Stonewall County1
- Sutton County1
- Taylor County1
- Throckmorton County1
- Tom Green County1
- Val Verde County1
- Bandera County1
- Bexar County1
- Blanco County1
- Burnet County1
- Frio County1
- Gillespie County1
- Kendall County1
- Kerr County1
- Llano County1
- Mason County1
- Medina County1
- Uvalde County1
- Zavala County1
- Floyd County1
- Hansford County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Moore County1
- Ochiltree County1
- Sherman County1
- Castro County1
- Deaf Smith County1
- Parmer County1
- Bell County1
- Clay County1
- Collin County1
- Cooke County1
- Ellis County1
- Falls County1
- Grayson County1
- Limestone County1
- Montague County1
- Navarro County1
- Robertson County1
- Rockwall County1
- Camp County1
- Delta County1
- Franklin County1
- Gregg County1
- Henderson County1
- Hopkins County1
- Lamar County1
- Morris County1
- Rains County1
- Red River County1
- Smith County1
- Titus County1
- Upshur County1
- Van Zandt County1
- Wood County1
- Baylor County1
- Dickens County1
- Foard County1
- Hardeman County1
- King County1
- Knox County1
- Wilbarger 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.