Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Texas, February 2008
7 tornado watches in February 2008. 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 February 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- February 21, 20082 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 11:56 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Fannin, Franklin and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 12, 10:25 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange | 7 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:26 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazoria, Brazos and 54 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 8:25 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 3:23 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jefferson, Orange | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 1:41 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Chambers, Galveston, Hardin, Harris, Houston and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 21, 8:54 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jasper, Newton, Orange, Sabine | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Orange County5
- Jasper County4
- Jefferson County4
- Newton County4
- Chambers County3
- Galveston County3
- Harris County3
- Liberty County3
- Sabine County3
- Marion County2
- Rains County2
- Upshur County2
- Van Zandt County2
- Wood County2
- Angelina County2
- Brazoria County2
- Fort Bend County2
- Houston County2
- Matagorda County2
- Montgomery County2
- Nacogdoches County2
- Polk County2
- San Augustine County2
- San Jacinto County2
- Trinity County2
- Walker County2
- Hardin County2
- Tyler County2
- Bowie County1
- Camp County1
- Cass County1
- Delta County1
- Fannin County1
- Franklin County1
- Hopkins County1
- Hunt County1
- Lamar County1
- Morris County1
- Red River County1
- Titus County1
38 more counties
- Anderson County1
- Austin County1
- Bastrop County1
- Brazos County1
- Burleson County1
- Caldwell County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cherokee County1
- Colorado County1
- DeWitt County1
- Falls County1
- Fayette County1
- Freestone County1
- Goliad County1
- Gonzales County1
- Gregg County1
- Grimes County1
- Harrison County1
- Henderson County1
- Jackson County1
- Karnes County1
- Kaufman County1
- Lavaca County1
- Lee County1
- Leon County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Milam County1
- Navarro County1
- Panola County1
- Robertson County1
- Rusk County1
- Shelby County1
- Smith County1
- Victoria County1
- Waller County1
- Washington County1
- Wharton County1
Nearby
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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.