Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2012
6 tornado watches in May 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 May 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 30, 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 30, 9:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Wichita, Wilbarger | 4 hr |
| May 10, 11:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Brooks, Calhoun, Cameron and 27 more | 8 hr |
| May 10, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bell and 48 more | 9 hr |
| May 11, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baylor, Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Dickens and 15 more | 5 hr |
| May 30, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche and 27 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Aransas County2
- Atascosa County2
- Bee County2
- Brooks County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cameron County2
- DeWitt County2
- Duval County2
- Frio County2
- Goliad County2
- Gonzales County2
- Hidalgo County2
- Jim Hogg County2
- Jim Wells County2
- Karnes County2
- Kenedy County2
- Kleberg County2
- La Salle County2
- Lavaca County2
- Live Oak County2
- McMullen County2
- Nueces County2
- Refugio County2
- San Patricio County2
- Starr County2
- Victoria County2
- Webb County2
- Willacy County2
- Wilson County2
- Zapata County2
- Brazoria County2
- Chambers County2
- Fort Bend County2
- Galveston County2
- Harris County2
- Clay County1
- Wichita County1
- Wilbarger County1
- Dimmit County1
- Maverick County1
86 more counties
- Zavala County1
- Austin County1
- Bastrop County1
- Bell County1
- Bexar County1
- Burleson County1
- Caldwell County1
- Colorado County1
- Comal County1
- Fayette County1
- Guadalupe County1
- Hays County1
- Jackson County1
- Lee County1
- Matagorda County1
- Milam County1
- Travis County1
- Washington County1
- Wharton County1
- Williamson County1
- Hardin County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Liberty County1
- Montgomery County1
- Newton County1
- Orange County1
- Polk County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Trinity County1
- Tyler County1
- Walker County1
- Baylor County1
- Briscoe County1
- Childress County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Cottle County1
- Dickens County1
- Donley County1
- Foard County1
- Gray County1
- Hall County1
- Hardeman County1
- Hemphill County1
- Kent County1
- King County1
- Knox County1
- Lipscomb County1
- Motley County1
- Ochiltree County1
- Roberts County1
- Stonewall County1
- Wheeler County1
- Brown County1
- Burnet County1
- Callahan County1
- Coke County1
- Coleman County1
- Comanche County1
- Concho County1
- Coryell County1
- Eastland County1
- Erath County1
- Fisher County1
- Gillespie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Haskell County1
- Jones County1
- Kerr County1
- Kimble County1
- Lampasas County1
- Llano County1
- McCulloch County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Mills County1
- Nolan County1
- Palo Pinto County1
- Runnels County1
- San Saba County1
- Shackelford County1
- Stephens County1
- Taylor County1
- Throckmorton County1
- Tom Green County1
- Young 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.