Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2013
Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2013
10 tornado watches in May 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
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- Busiest day
- May 20, 20132 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 15, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Brown, Clay, Coleman, Collin and 33 more | 8 hr |
| May 18, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Childress, Clay and 22 more | 8 hr |
| May 20, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Wichita | 9 hr |
| May 20, 2:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coleman, Collin and 33 more | 8 hr |
| May 21, 10:26 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Archer, Baylor, Bell, Bosque, Brown and 58 more | 10 hr |
| May 21, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more | 8 hr |
| May 23, 1:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Baylor, Borden, Briscoe and 54 more | 8 hr |
| May 29, 12:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 16 more | 11 hr |
| May 29, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Coke, Coleman and 33 more | 5 hr |
| May 30, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Fannin, Grayson and 12 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County6
- Baylor County6
- Shackelford County6
- Throckmorton County6
- Coleman County5
- Archer County5
- Callahan County5
- Haskell County5
- Jones County5
- Taylor County5
- Brown County4
- Cooke County4
- Fannin County4
- Grayson County4
- Jack County4
- McCulloch County4
- Montague County4
- Palo Pinto County4
- Stephens County4
- Wise County4
- Young County4
- Runnels County4
- Wichita County4
- Bosque County3
- Collin County3
- Comanche County3
- Coryell County3
- Denton County3
- Eastland County3
- Erath County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hood County3
- Lampasas County3
- Mason County3
- Mills County3
- Parker County3
- San Saba County3
- Somervell County3
- Childress County3
- Collingsworth County3
120 more counties
- Cottle County3
- Fisher County3
- Foard County3
- Hardeman County3
- Hemphill County3
- King County3
- Knox County3
- Nolan County3
- Stonewall County3
- Wheeler County3
- Wilbarger County3
- Concho County3
- Kimble County3
- Menard County3
- Bell County2
- Dallas County2
- Ellis County2
- Hill County2
- Hunt County2
- Johnson County2
- Kaufman County2
- McLennan County2
- Navarro County2
- Rockwall County2
- Tarrant County2
- Coke County2
- Lipscomb County2
- Lamar County2
- Armstrong County2
- Briscoe County2
- Carson County2
- Dickens County2
- Donley County2
- Floyd County2
- Gray County2
- Hall County2
- Howard County2
- Hutchinson County2
- Kent County2
- Mitchell County2
- Motley County2
- Roberts County2
- Scurry County2
- Burnet County1
- Gillespie County1
- Kerr County1
- Llano County1
- Anderson County1
- Delta County1
- Falls County1
- Freestone County1
- Henderson County1
- Hopkins County1
- Leon County1
- Limestone County1
- Milam County1
- Rains County1
- Robertson County1
- Van Zandt County1
- Angelina County1
- Bowie County1
- Camp County1
- Cass County1
- Cherokee County1
- Franklin County1
- Gregg County1
- Harrison County1
- Marion County1
- Morris County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Panola County1
- Red River County1
- Rusk County1
- Sabine County1
- San Augustine County1
- Shelby County1
- Smith County1
- Titus County1
- Upshur County1
- Wood County1
- Andrews County1
- Bailey County1
- Borden County1
- Castro County1
- Cochran County1
- Crosby County1
- Dawson County1
- Deaf Smith County1
- Gaines County1
- Garza County1
- Hale County1
- Hartley County1
- Hockley County1
- Lamb County1
- Lubbock County1
- Lynn County1
- Martin County1
- Moore County1
- Oldham County1
- Parmer County1
- Potter County1
- Randall County1
- Swisher County1
- Terry County1
- Yoakum County1
- Hansford County1
- Ochiltree County1
- Crockett County1
- Edwards County1
- Glasscock County1
- Irion County1
- Pecos County1
- Reagan County1
- Schleicher County1
- Sterling County1
- Sutton County1
- Terrell County1
- Tom Green County1
- Upton County1
- Val Verde 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.