Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2006
Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2006
8 tornado watches in May 2006. 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 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20062 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 2, 2:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Brown, Callahan, Carson and 37 more | 8 hr |
| May 2, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Clay, Wichita | 5 hr |
| May 5, 1:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 29 more | 9 hr |
| May 5, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bailey, Callahan, Cochran, Crosby, Dickens, Fisher and 16 more | 5 hr |
| May 5, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 39 more | 8 hr |
| May 6, 1:28 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 17 more | 7 hr |
| May 9, 9:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Red River | 6 hr |
| May 10, 1:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton and 6 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brown County3
- Callahan County3
- Coke County3
- Coleman County3
- Fisher County3
- Haskell County3
- Jones County3
- Nolan County3
- Runnels County3
- Shackelford County3
- Taylor County3
- Throckmorton County3
- Crosby County2
- Dickens County2
- Floyd County2
- Garza County2
- Kent County2
- King County2
- Mitchell County2
- Scurry County2
- Stonewall County2
- Concho County2
- Irion County2
- Kimble County2
- McCulloch County2
- Mason County2
- Menard County2
- San Saba County2
- Sterling County2
- Tom Green County2
- Armstrong County1
- Baylor County1
- Briscoe County1
- Carson County1
- Childress County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Cottle County1
- Donley County1
- Foard County1
- Gray County1
103 more counties
- Hall County1
- Hansford County1
- Hardeman County1
- Hemphill County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Knox County1
- Lipscomb County1
- Motley County1
- Ochiltree County1
- Roberts County1
- Wheeler County1
- Wilbarger County1
- Archer County1
- Clay County1
- Wichita County1
- Andrews County1
- Borden County1
- Crane County1
- Crockett County1
- Dawson County1
- Ector County1
- Gaines County1
- Glasscock County1
- Howard County1
- Loving County1
- Martin County1
- Midland County1
- Reagan County1
- Schleicher County1
- Sutton County1
- Upton County1
- Ward County1
- Winkler County1
- Bailey County1
- Cochran County1
- Hale County1
- Hockley County1
- Lamb County1
- Lubbock County1
- Lynn County1
- Terry County1
- Yoakum County1
- Bell County1
- Bosque County1
- Comanche County1
- Coryell County1
- Eastland County1
- Ellis County1
- Erath County1
- Falls County1
- Freestone County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hill County1
- Hood County1
- Johnson County1
- Lampasas County1
- Leon County1
- Limestone County1
- McLennan County1
- Milam County1
- Mills County1
- Palo Pinto County1
- Parker County1
- Robertson County1
- Somervell County1
- Stephens County1
- Austin County1
- Brazoria County1
- Brazos County1
- Burleson County1
- Chambers County1
- Colorado County1
- Fort Bend County1
- Galveston County1
- Grimes County1
- Harris County1
- Houston County1
- Jackson County1
- Liberty County1
- Madison County1
- Matagorda County1
- Montgomery County1
- Polk County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Trinity County1
- Walker County1
- Waller County1
- Washington County1
- Wharton County1
- Bowie County1
- Red River County1
- Angelina County1
- Cherokee County1
- Hardin County1
- Jasper County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Newton County1
- Panola County1
- Rusk County1
- Sabine County1
- San Augustine County1
- Shelby County1
- Tyler 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.