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Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2015

38 tornado watches in May 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
38
Busiest day
May 25, 20156 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 2:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrewster, Crane, Loving, Pecos, Reeves, Terrell and 2 more6 hr
May 4, 7:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrews, Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock and 12 more6 hr
May 5, 8:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCoke, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Fisher, Foard and 14 more4 hr
May 6, 1:23 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Eastland, Foard and 16 more8 hr
May 6, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Fisher and 12 more7 hr
May 6, 8:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Haskell and 7 more5 hr
May 8, 9:31 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Callahan and 40 more7 hr
May 8, 12:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cooke and 14 more8 hr
May 8, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrews, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Crane, Crockett and 27 more8 hr
May 8, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCollin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Fannin and 15 more6 hr
May 9, 1:21 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay and 41 more10 hr
May 9, 2:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Morris, Red River and 1 more7 hr
May 10, 9:28 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Red River6 hr
May 10, 10:19 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Bowie and 68 more13 hr
May 10, 7:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg and 9 more4 hr
May 10, 11:31 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison and 7 more5 hr
May 13, 9:52 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtascosa, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more8 hr
May 16, 12:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson, Castro and 33 more6 hr
May 16, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Knox, Wichita and 1 more8 hr
May 16, 5:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Cooke and 21 more5 hr
May 19, 1:32 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Foard, Hardeman and 4 more7 hr
May 19, 5:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCComanche, Cooke, Denton, Eastland, Erath, Hood and 7 more6 hr
May 19, 8:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more5 hr
May 23, 1:16 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Armstrong, Bailey, Baylor, Briscoe, Castro and 31 more6 hr
May 23, 3:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrews, Borden, Brewster, Brown, Callahan, Coke and 49 more6 hr
May 23, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Briscoe, Childress, Clay, Collin and 30 more9 hr
May 23, 6:19 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Blanco and 30 more9 hr
May 23, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Austin, Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson and 34 more6 hr
May 24, 12:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Cass, Morris6 hr
May 24, 8:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree5 hr
May 25, 9:02 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more7 hr
May 25, 10:54 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan and 55 more7 hr
May 25, 2:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Angelina, Bastrop, Blanco, Bowie, Brazos and 53 more8 hr
May 25, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCSabine6 hr
May 25, 6:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAustin, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado and 18 more9 hr
May 26, 2:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Comanche, Eastland and 22 more7 hr
May 27, 2:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArmstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hansford and 7 more10 hr
May 28, 12:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrews, Bailey, Baylor, Borden, Brewster, Callahan and 58 more7 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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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.