Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2016
Tornado Watches in Texas, April 2016
8 tornado watches in April 2016. 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 April 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- April 29, 20163 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 15, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 16, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 20 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crane and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay and 46 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 35 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Wichita, Wilbarger | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Armstrong County2
- Carson County2
- Hansford County2
- Hutchinson County2
- Moore County2
- Sherman County2
- Briscoe County2
- Childress County2
- Cottle County2
- Crosby County2
- Dickens County2
- Floyd County2
- Garza County2
- Hall County2
- Kent County2
- King County2
- Motley County2
- Stonewall County2
- Callahan County2
- Coke County2
- Coleman County2
- Concho County2
- Fisher County2
- Haskell County2
- Jones County2
- Nolan County2
- Runnels County2
- Shackelford County2
- Taylor County2
- Throckmorton County2
- Tom Green County2
- Bosque County2
- Clay County2
- Collin County2
- Comanche County2
- Cooke County2
- Dallas County2
- Denton County2
- Ellis County2
- Erath County2
103 more counties
- Fannin County2
- Grayson County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hill County2
- Hood County2
- Hunt County2
- Johnson County2
- Kaufman County2
- Mills County2
- Montague County2
- Parker County2
- Rockwall County2
- Somervell County2
- Tarrant County2
- Wichita County2
- Wilbarger County2
- Wise County2
- Dallam County1
- Deaf Smith County1
- Hartley County1
- Oldham County1
- Potter County1
- Randall County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Donley County1
- Gray County1
- Hemphill County1
- Lipscomb County1
- Ochiltree County1
- Roberts County1
- Wheeler County1
- Borden County1
- Crane County1
- Crockett County1
- Ector County1
- Glasscock County1
- Howard County1
- Irion County1
- Martin County1
- Midland County1
- Mitchell County1
- Pecos County1
- Reagan County1
- Schleicher County1
- Scurry County1
- Sterling County1
- Sutton County1
- Terrell County1
- Upton County1
- Archer County1
- Baylor County1
- Brown County1
- Eastland County1
- Foard County1
- Hardeman County1
- Jack County1
- Knox County1
- McCulloch County1
- Palo Pinto County1
- San Saba County1
- Stephens County1
- Young County1
- Castro County1
- Hale County1
- Lamb County1
- Lubbock County1
- Lynn County1
- Parmer County1
- Swisher County1
- Anderson County1
- Bell County1
- Coryell County1
- Delta County1
- Falls County1
- Freestone County1
- Henderson County1
- Hopkins County1
- Lamar County1
- Lampasas County1
- Leon County1
- Limestone County1
- McLennan County1
- Milam County1
- Navarro County1
- Rains County1
- Robertson County1
- Van Zandt County1
- Bowie County1
- Camp County1
- Cass County1
- Cherokee County1
- Franklin County1
- Gregg County1
- Harrison County1
- Marion County1
- Morris County1
- Panola County1
- Red River County1
- Rusk County1
- Smith County1
- Titus County1
- Upshur County1
- Wood 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.