Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2004
Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2004
12 tornado watches in May 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- May 13, 20044 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 1, 3:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers and 25 more | 6 hr |
| May 1, 9:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 6 hr |
| May 13, 8:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 12:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fayette and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 12:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Concho, Eastland, Haskell and 14 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal and 21 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Childress | 6 hr |
| May 29, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cottle, Foard, Hall and 6 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 12:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Dallas, Delta and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta and 25 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson and 33 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hardin County5
- Angelina County4
- Fayette County4
- Grimes County4
- Liberty County4
- Montgomery County4
- Polk County4
- San Jacinto County4
- Trinity County4
- Tyler County4
- Walker County4
- Austin County3
- Bastrop County3
- Brazos County3
- Burleson County3
- Chambers County3
- Fort Bend County3
- Harris County3
- Jasper County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lee County3
- Madison County3
- Newton County3
- Orange County3
- Waller County3
- Washington County3
- Wharton County3
- Colorado County2
- Lavaca County2
- Sabine County2
- San Augustine County2
- Brazoria County2
- Galveston County2
- Matagorda County2
- Hemphill County2
- Caldwell County2
- Milam County2
- Williamson County2
- Eastland County2
- Childress County2
101 more counties
- Bowie County2
- Camp County2
- Cass County2
- Delta County2
- Franklin County2
- Hopkins County2
- Hunt County2
- Lamar County2
- Marion County2
- Morris County2
- Rains County2
- Red River County2
- Rockwall County2
- Titus County2
- Upshur County2
- Wood County2
- Anderson County2
- Cherokee County2
- Ellis County2
- Freestone County2
- Henderson County2
- Hill County2
- Limestone County2
- McLennan County2
- Navarro County2
- Lipscomb County1
- Travis County1
- Brown County1
- Callahan County1
- Coleman County1
- Concho County1
- Haskell County1
- Jones County1
- Kimble County1
- McCulloch County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Runnels County1
- Schleicher County1
- Shackelford County1
- Stephens County1
- Sutton County1
- Taylor County1
- Throckmorton County1
- Tom Green County1
- Young County1
- Atascosa County1
- Bandera County1
- Bexar County1
- Comal County1
- DeWitt County1
- Edwards County1
- Frio County1
- Goliad County1
- Gonzales County1
- Guadalupe County1
- Hays County1
- Karnes County1
- Kendall County1
- Kerr County1
- Kinney County1
- Maverick County1
- Medina County1
- Real County1
- Uvalde County1
- Val Verde County1
- Victoria County1
- Wilson County1
- Zavala County1
- Clay County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Cottle County1
- Foard County1
- Hall County1
- Hardeman County1
- Motley County1
- Wheeler County1
- Wichita County1
- Wilbarger County1
- Collin County1
- Dallas County1
- Fannin County1
- Gregg County1
- Harrison County1
- Kaufman County1
- Rusk County1
- Smith County1
- Van Zandt County1
- Bell County1
- Bosque County1
- Comanche County1
- Coryell County1
- Erath County1
- Falls County1
- Hamilton County1
- Houston County1
- Lampasas County1
- Leon County1
- Mills County1
- Robertson County1
- Somervell 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.