Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2003

Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2003

23 tornado watches in May 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
23
Busiest day
May 8, 20034 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBosque, Bowie, Brown, Burnet, Camp, Collin and 35 more5 hr
May 2, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 20 more6 hr
May 3, 1:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Cooke, Delta and 20 more6 hr
May 3, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Childress, Clay and 22 more5 hr
May 3, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Callahan, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth and 34 more6 hr
May 4, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCollin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis and 19 more6 hr
May 5, 10:40 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Gregg and 13 more5 hr
May 5, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Cass, Marion, Morris, Upshur7 hr
May 6, 11:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Gregg and 16 more6 hr
May 7, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Callahan, Carson and 33 more6 hr
May 7, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBosque, Coryell, Ellis, Erath, Freestone, Hamilton and 7 more6 hr
May 7, 10:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Cooke, Fannin, Foard, Grayson, Hardeman and 3 more5 hr
May 8, 1:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCWichita7 hr
May 8, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coleman, Comanche and 18 more5 hr
May 9, 3:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Haskell, Jack, Knox and 6 more5 hr
May 14, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Hopkins and 7 more6 hr
May 15, 1:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArmstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 13 more6 hr
May 15, 4:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBorden, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cottle, Crosby and 20 more6 hr
May 15, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Borden, Briscoe, Brown, Callahan and 45 more6 hr
May 15, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArmstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Donley, Gray and 12 more5 hr
May 15, 10:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Briscoe, Callahan, Childress, Clay and 31 more6 hr
May 16, 12:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta and 23 more5 hr
May 16, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 12 more6 hr

By county

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

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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.