Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2011
Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2011
10 tornado watches in May 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20112 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, 4:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta and 21 more | 4 hr |
| May 1, 12:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Freestone and 11 more | 8 hr |
| May 19, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cottle, Foard, Hardeman and 7 more | 9 hr |
| May 20, 11:03 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg and 10 more | 7 hr |
| May 20, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg and 10 more | 3 hr |
| May 22, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bosque, Clay, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Dallas and 19 more | 7 hr |
| May 23, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 12:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Callahan, Clay, Collin and 27 more | 11 hr |
| May 24, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Fannin, Franklin and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Cass, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 6 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cass County6
- Gregg County6
- Harrison County6
- Marion County6
- Bowie County5
- Camp County5
- Cherokee County5
- Morris County5
- Panola County5
- Rusk County5
- Smith County5
- Upshur County5
- Wood County5
- Franklin County4
- Red River County4
- Titus County4
- Clay County4
- Archer County3
- Baylor County3
- Wichita County3
- Wilbarger County3
- Anderson County2
- Delta County2
- Ellis County2
- Henderson County2
- Hopkins County2
- Hunt County2
- Kaufman County2
- Lamar County2
- Navarro County2
- Rains County2
- Van Zandt County2
- Foard County2
- Hardeman County2
- Knox County2
- Throckmorton County2
- Bosque County2
- Collin County2
- Comanche County2
- Cooke County2
33 more counties
- Dallas County2
- Denton County2
- Eastland County2
- Erath County2
- Grayson County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hill County2
- Hood County2
- Jack County2
- Johnson County2
- Mills County2
- Montague County2
- Palo Pinto County2
- Parker County2
- Rockwall County2
- Somervell County2
- Stephens County2
- Tarrant County2
- Wise County2
- Young County2
- Freestone County1
- Cottle County1
- Haskell County1
- King County1
- Stonewall County1
- Callahan County1
- Shackelford County1
- Fannin County1
- Angelina County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Sabine County1
- San Augustine County1
- Shelby 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.