Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2002

Tornado Watches in Texas, December 2002

13 tornado watches in December 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 December 2002. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches: 13
Busiest day: December 30, 20024 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 18, 1:10 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 13 more	8 hr
Dec 18, 8:55 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Houston and 8 more	6 hr
Dec 19, 12:30 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, DeWitt, Fort Bend and 17 more	7 hr
Dec 19, 2:25 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Angelina, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Trinity	8 hr
Dec 23, 5:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Brazos and 37 more	5 hr
Dec 23, 9:45 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson and 29 more	5 hr
Dec 23, 2:10 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers and 31 more	6 hr
Dec 23, 7:10 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Angelina, Aransas, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Brazoria and 49 more	8 hr
Dec 30, 12:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 21 more	6 hr
Dec 30, 1:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Camp, Collin, Cooke and 33 more	6 hr
Dec 30, 2:50 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells and 9 more	6 hr
Dec 30, 3:20 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Chambers and 29 more	6 hr
Dec 30, 8:55 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Chambers, Galveston, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton and 2 more	5 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

90 more counties

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 2001 2003

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.