Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2005
Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2005
9 tornado watches in May 2005. 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 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 13, 20054 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 8, 11:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Brazoria and 33 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 18 more | 7 hr |
| May 12, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Collingsworth and 18 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cottle and 19 more | 7 hr |
| May 13, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Eastland and 16 more | 7 hr |
| May 13, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, King and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 2:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Brazoria and 41 more | 9 hr |
| May 31, 1:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 26 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Childress County5
- Cottle County5
- Dickens County5
- Foard County5
- Hall County5
- Hardeman County5
- King County5
- Motley County5
- Briscoe County4
- Collingsworth County4
- Crosby County4
- Donley County4
- Floyd County4
- Gray County3
- Knox County3
- Hale County3
- Lubbock County3
- Stonewall County3
- Atascosa County2
- Austin County2
- Bee County2
- Bexar County2
- Brazoria County2
- Caldwell County2
- Chambers County2
- Colorado County2
- Comal County2
- DeWitt County2
- Dimmit County2
- Fayette County2
- Fort Bend County2
- Frio County2
- Goliad County2
- Gonzales County2
- Guadalupe County2
- Harris County2
- Jackson County2
- Karnes County2
- La Salle County2
- Lavaca County2
84 more counties
- Liberty County2
- Live Oak County2
- McMullen County2
- Medina County2
- Refugio County2
- Uvalde County2
- Victoria County2
- Waller County2
- Wharton County2
- Wilson County2
- Zavala County2
- Armstrong County2
- Carson County2
- Hemphill County2
- Roberts County2
- Wheeler County2
- Bailey County2
- Castro County2
- Cochran County2
- Hockley County2
- Lamb County2
- Swisher County2
- Archer County2
- Baylor County2
- Clay County2
- Haskell County2
- Jack County2
- Kent County2
- Throckmorton County2
- Wichita County2
- Wilbarger County2
- Fisher County2
- Bandera County1
- Calhoun County1
- Galveston County1
- Kendall County1
- Matagorda County1
- Real County1
- Hansford County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Lipscomb County1
- Ochiltree County1
- Lynn County1
- Terry County1
- Yoakum County1
- Brown County1
- Callahan County1
- Coke County1
- Coleman County1
- Concho County1
- Eastland County1
- Irion County1
- Jones County1
- McCulloch County1
- Nolan County1
- Palo Pinto County1
- Runnels County1
- Shackelford County1
- Stephens County1
- Taylor County1
- Tom Green County1
- Young County1
- Montague County1
- Bastrop County1
- Brazos County1
- Burleson County1
- Grimes County1
- Hays County1
- Houston County1
- Lee County1
- Madison County1
- Montgomery County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Travis County1
- Walker County1
- Washington County1
- Webb County1
- Deaf Smith County1
- Garza County1
- Hartley County1
- Oldham County1
- Parmer County1
- Potter County1
- Randall 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.