Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2009
Tornado Watches in Texas, April 2009
18 tornado watches in April 2009. 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 April 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 18
- Busiest day
- April 26, 20094 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Cass, Harrison, Marion | 4 hr |
| Apr 12, 7:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris and 9 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Coke and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 17, 10:24 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 17, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aransas, Austin, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 18, 9:53 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 18, 1:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Sabine and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 25, 3:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Collingsworth, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Wheeler | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 11:07 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 1:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Cottle, Crosby and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Callahan, Coke, Crockett, Fisher, Glasscock, Haskell and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 26, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cottle and 14 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 26, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blanco, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 30 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 6:08 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brazos and 33 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, DeWitt, Fort Bend and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 29, 12:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Borden, Callahan, Clay, Crosby and 32 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 29, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coke, Concho, Crockett, Edwards, Glasscock, Irion and 14 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 18 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brazoria County5
- Chambers County5
- Fort Bend County5
- Galveston County5
- Harris County5
- Liberty County5
- Hardin County4
- Jefferson County4
- Montgomery County4
- Orange County4
- Childress County4
- Coke County4
- Cottle County4
- Crockett County4
- Dickens County4
- Fisher County4
- Glasscock County4
- Hall County4
- Howard County4
- Irion County4
- Kent County4
- King County4
- Mitchell County4
- Motley County4
- Nolan County4
- Reagan County4
- Scurry County4
- Sterling County4
- Stonewall County4
- Colorado County4
- Jackson County4
- Matagorda County4
- Wharton County4
- Collingsworth County4
- Hemphill County4
- Lipscomb County4
- Wheeler County4
- Haskell County4
- Throckmorton County4
- San Jacinto County3
146 more counties
- Crosby County3
- Floyd County3
- Garza County3
- Upton County3
- Austin County3
- Brazos County3
- Burleson County3
- Grimes County3
- Madison County3
- Walker County3
- Waller County3
- Washington County3
- Archer County3
- Baylor County3
- Clay County3
- Foard County3
- Knox County3
- Wichita County3
- Wilbarger County3
- Callahan County3
- Jones County3
- Runnels County3
- Schleicher County3
- Shackelford County3
- Sutton County3
- Taylor County3
- Tom Green County3
- Jasper County2
- Newton County2
- Polk County2
- Tyler County2
- Borden County2
- Briscoe County2
- Dawson County2
- Hale County2
- Lubbock County2
- Lynn County2
- Swisher County2
- Calhoun County2
- Goliad County2
- Victoria County2
- Anderson County2
- Freestone County2
- Houston County2
- Leon County2
- Donley County2
- Gray County2
- Ochiltree County2
- Roberts County2
- Hardeman County2
- Pecos County2
- Terrell County2
- Blanco County2
- Burnet County2
- Concho County2
- Edwards County2
- Gillespie County2
- Kimble County2
- Llano County2
- Menard County2
- Bowie County1
- Cass County1
- Harrison County1
- Marion County1
- Andrews County1
- Castro County1
- Crane County1
- Ector County1
- Gaines County1
- Hockley County1
- Lamb County1
- Martin County1
- Midland County1
- Terry County1
- Aransas County1
- Bee County1
- Duval County1
- Jim Wells County1
- Kleberg County1
- Live Oak County1
- McMullen County1
- Nueces County1
- Refugio County1
- San Patricio County1
- Angelina County1
- Cherokee County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Trinity County1
- Sabine County1
- San Augustine County1
- Shelby County1
- Brown County1
- Coleman County1
- Kerr County1
- McCulloch County1
- Mason County1
- Real County1
- San Saba County1
- Bastrop County1
- Bell County1
- Bosque County1
- Caldwell County1
- Coryell County1
- Ellis County1
- Falls County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hays County1
- Henderson County1
- Hill County1
- Johnson County1
- Kaufman County1
- Lampasas County1
- Lee County1
- Limestone County1
- McLennan County1
- Milam County1
- Mills County1
- Navarro County1
- Robertson County1
- Somervell County1
- Travis County1
- Van Zandt County1
- Williamson County1
- DeWitt County1
- Lavaca County1
- Eastland County1
- Erath County1
- Hood County1
- Jack County1
- Montague County1
- Palo Pinto County1
- Parker County1
- Stephens County1
- Wise County1
- Young County1
- Kinney County1
- Maverick County1
- Val Verde County1
- Armstrong County1
- Carson County1
- Hansford County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Moore County1
- Potter County1
- Randall County1
- Sherman 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.