Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2002
15 tornado watches in May 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 May 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 15
- Busiest day
- May 5, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 34 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Borden, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke and 31 more | 5 hr |
| May 5, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Cochran and 31 more | 5 hr |
| May 5, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Childress, Collingsworth | 4 hr |
| May 8, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Childress | 6 hr |
| May 8, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Coleman, Collin, Comanche, Concho and 22 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 11, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts | 5 hr |
| May 24, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baylor, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Foard, Hall and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger | 5 hr |
| May 27, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bandera, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 36 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth and 31 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby and 13 more | 5 hr |
| May 28, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Crane, Crockett, Dawson, Ector, Edwards and 13 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Collingsworth County5
- Childress County5
- Coleman County4
- Concho County4
- Crosby County4
- King County4
- Knox County4
- McCulloch County4
- Mitchell County4
- Scurry County4
- Sterling County4
- Hall County4
- Foard County4
- Hardeman County4
- Baylor County3
- Brown County3
- Callahan County3
- Clay County3
- Coke County3
- Comanche County3
- Dickens County3
- Eastland County3
- Erath County3
- Fisher County3
- Garza County3
- Hamilton County3
- Irion County3
- Jones County3
- Lampasas County3
- Mills County3
- Nolan County3
- Palo Pinto County3
- Runnels County3
- San Saba County3
- Shackelford County3
- Stephens County3
- Taylor County3
- Tom Green County3
- Borden County3
- Howard County3
91 more counties
- Andrews County3
- Crane County3
- Crockett County3
- Dawson County3
- Ector County3
- Gaines County3
- Glasscock County3
- Martin County3
- Midland County3
- Pecos County3
- Reagan County3
- Terrell County3
- Upton County3
- Val Verde County3
- Winkler County3
- Armstrong County3
- Briscoe County3
- Donley County3
- Floyd County3
- Hale County3
- Lubbock County3
- Motley County3
- Randall County3
- Roberts County3
- Swisher County3
- Wichita County3
- Wilbarger County3
- Cottle County3
- Archer County2
- Haskell County2
- Jack County2
- Kent County2
- Stonewall County2
- Bosque County2
- Hood County2
- Menard County2
- Parker County2
- Somervell County2
- Loving County2
- Reeves County2
- Ward County2
- Carson County2
- Castro County2
- Deaf Smith County2
- Gray County2
- Hansford County2
- Hartley County2
- Hemphill County2
- Hockley County2
- Hutchinson County2
- Lamb County2
- Lipscomb County2
- Lynn County2
- Moore County2
- Ochiltree County2
- Oldham County2
- Potter County2
- Sherman County2
- Wheeler County2
- Montague County2
- Edwards County2
- Throckmorton County1
- Young County1
- Bell County1
- Coryell County1
- Falls County1
- McLennan County1
- Robertson County1
- Brewster County1
- Bailey County1
- Cochran County1
- Parmer County1
- Terry County1
- Yoakum County1
- Collin County1
- Cooke County1
- Dallas County1
- Denton County1
- Fannin County1
- Grayson County1
- Johnson County1
- Tarrant County1
- Wise County1
- Bandera County1
- Kerr County1
- Kimble County1
- Mason County1
- Real County1
- Schleicher County1
- Sutton County1
- Dallam 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.