Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Texas, December 2012
2 tornado watches in December 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 December 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- December 20, 20121 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 7:36 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Fannin, Grayson, Lamar, Red River | 6 hr |
| Dec 25, 9:17 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Grimes and 16 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bowie County1
- Fannin County1
- Grayson County1
- Lamar County1
- Red River County1
- Austin County1
- Brazoria County1
- Chambers County1
- Fort Bend County1
- Galveston County1
- Grimes County1
- Hardin County1
- Harris County1
- Houston County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Liberty County1
- Montgomery County1
- Newton County1
- Orange County1
- Polk County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Trinity County1
- Tyler County1
- Walker County1
- Waller 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.