Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2009
Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2009
9 tornado watches in May 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 May 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20093 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, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Cooke, Cottle and 21 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 12:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Delta, Denton and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Dallas, Ellis, Falls and 18 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Dallas, Delta and 27 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 12:54 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Red River | 5 hr |
| May 8, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coleman, Collin and 34 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 11:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Camp, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 28 more | 5 hr |
| May 15, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree and 2 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fannin County5
- Grayson County4
- Wise County4
- Collin County4
- Denton County4
- Red River County4
- Dallas County4
- Hood County4
- Johnson County4
- Parker County4
- Somervell County4
- Tarrant County4
- Cooke County3
- Jack County3
- Montague County3
- Shackelford County3
- Young County3
- Bowie County3
- Camp County3
- Delta County3
- Franklin County3
- Gregg County3
- Hopkins County3
- Hunt County3
- Lamar County3
- Morris County3
- Smith County3
- Titus County3
- Upshur County3
- Wood County3
- Bosque County3
- Ellis County3
- Hamilton County3
- Henderson County3
- Hill County3
- Kaufman County3
- Mills County3
- Navarro County3
- Rains County3
- Rockwall County3
61 more counties
- Van Zandt County3
- Clay County2
- Fisher County2
- Haskell County2
- Jones County2
- Throckmorton County2
- Cass County2
- Harrison County2
- Marion County2
- Lampasas County2
- Brown County2
- Callahan County2
- Coleman County2
- Comanche County2
- Eastland County2
- Erath County2
- Palo Pinto County2
- Runnels County2
- Stephens County2
- Taylor County2
- Archer County1
- Baylor County1
- Childress County1
- Cottle County1
- Dickens County1
- Foard County1
- Hardeman County1
- Kent County1
- King County1
- Knox County1
- Motley County1
- Stonewall County1
- Wichita County1
- Wilbarger County1
- Bell County1
- Coryell County1
- Falls County1
- Freestone County1
- Limestone County1
- McLennan County1
- Panola County1
- Rusk County1
- Coke County1
- Nolan County1
- Concho County1
- Kimble County1
- McCulloch County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- San Saba County1
- Schleicher County1
- Sutton County1
- Tom Green County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Donley County1
- Gray County1
- Hemphill County1
- Lipscomb County1
- Ochiltree County1
- Roberts County1
- Wheeler 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.