Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Texas, April 2012
7 tornado watches in April 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- April 3, 20122 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 3, 12:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Coryell, Dallas and 30 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Bowie, Brazos, Camp, Cass, Cherokee and 23 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 9, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baylor, Foard, Hardeman, Knox, Wichita, Wilbarger | 8 hr |
| Apr 11, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Foard, Hardeman, Wichita, Wilbarger | 8 hr |
| Apr 14, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Collingsworth, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Wheeler | 9 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Donley and 12 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hardeman County3
- Collingsworth County3
- Hemphill County3
- Lipscomb County3
- Wheeler County3
- Foard County2
- Wichita County2
- Wilbarger County2
- Armstrong County2
- Carson County2
- Donley County2
- Gray County2
- Hutchinson County2
- Ochiltree County2
- Potter County2
- Randall County2
- Roberts County2
- Anderson County1
- Bell County1
- Bosque County1
- Collin County1
- Coryell County1
- Dallas County1
- Delta County1
- Denton County1
- Ellis County1
- Falls County1
- Fannin County1
- Freestone County1
- Grayson County1
- Hamilton County1
- Henderson County1
- Hill County1
- Hood County1
- Hopkins County1
- Hunt County1
- Johnson County1
- Kaufman County1
- Lamar County1
- Lampasas County1
55 more counties
- Leon County1
- Limestone County1
- McLennan County1
- Milam County1
- Navarro County1
- Parker County1
- Rains County1
- Robertson County1
- Rockwall County1
- Somervell County1
- Tarrant County1
- Van Zandt County1
- Wise County1
- Angelina County1
- Bowie County1
- Brazos County1
- Camp County1
- Cass County1
- Cherokee County1
- Franklin County1
- Gregg County1
- Grimes County1
- Harrison County1
- Houston County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Morris County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Panola County1
- Polk County1
- Red River County1
- Rusk County1
- Sabine County1
- San Augustine County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Shelby County1
- Smith County1
- Titus County1
- Trinity County1
- Upshur County1
- Walker County1
- Wood County1
- Baylor County1
- Knox County1
- Dallam County1
- Deaf Smith County1
- Hansford County1
- Hartley County1
- Moore County1
- Oldham County1
- Sherman County1
- Briscoe County1
- Childress County1
- Hall County1
- Swisher 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.