Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Texas, October 2012
3 tornado watches in October 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 October 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- October 12, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro and 25 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 13, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Cooke, Eastland and 20 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 17, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Bowie, Cass, Harrison, Marion, Nacogdoches and 4 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Andrews County1
- Armstrong County1
- Bailey County1
- Briscoe County1
- Carson County1
- Castro County1
- Cochran County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Crosby County1
- Dawson County1
- Deaf Smith County1
- Donley County1
- Floyd County1
- Gaines County1
- Garza County1
- Gray County1
- Hale County1
- Hall County1
- Hockley County1
- Lamb County1
- Lubbock County1
- Lynn County1
- Martin County1
- Oldham County1
- Parmer County1
- Potter County1
- Randall County1
- Swisher County1
- Terry County1
- Wheeler County1
- Yoakum County1
- Archer County1
- Baylor County1
- Callahan County1
- Clay County1
- Cooke County1
- Eastland County1
- Fisher County1
- Foard County1
- Grayson County1
27 more counties
- Hardeman County1
- Haskell County1
- Jack County1
- Jones County1
- King County1
- Knox County1
- Montague County1
- Nolan County1
- Palo Pinto County1
- Shackelford County1
- Stephens County1
- Stonewall County1
- Taylor County1
- Throckmorton County1
- Wichita County1
- Wilbarger County1
- Young County1
- Angelina County1
- Bowie County1
- Cass County1
- Harrison County1
- Marion County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Panola County1
- Sabine County1
- San Augustine County1
- Shelby 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.