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Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2016
10 tornado watches in May 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 May 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 22, 20162 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 8, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Cooke, Delta, Fannin, Grayson, Lamar and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 9, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 8 more | 8 hr |
| May 16, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman | 3 hr |
| May 22, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 40 more | 9 hr |
| May 22, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coke, Crockett, Glasscock, Irion, Midland, Pecos and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Borden, Brewster, Briscoe, Childress, Coke, Cottle and 37 more | 7 hr |
| May 23, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Collingsworth, Donley, Foard, Gray, Hardeman, Hemphill and 6 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hansford and 6 more | 9 hr |
| May 26, 1:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Foard, Hardeman, Knox, Wichita and 1 more | 10 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Foard County3
- Hardeman County3
- Knox County3
- Wilbarger County3
- Hansford County3
- Hutchinson County3
- Collingsworth County3
- Donley County3
- Gray County3
- Hemphill County3
- Lipscomb County3
- Ochiltree County3
- Roberts County3
- Wheeler County3
- Archer County2
- Baylor County2
- Wichita County2
- Bowie County2
- Red River County2
- Dallam County2
- Hartley County2
- Moore County2
- Sherman County2
- Armstrong County2
- Borden County2
- Briscoe County2
- Carson County2
- Childress County2
- Cottle County2
- Crosby County2
- Dickens County2
- Floyd County2
- Garza County2
- Hale County2
- Hall County2
- Howard County2
- Kent County2
- King County2
- Lubbock County2
- Lynn County2
56 more counties
- Martin County2
- Mitchell County2
- Motley County2
- Scurry County2
- Stonewall County2
- Coke County2
- Crockett County2
- Glasscock County2
- Irion County2
- Midland County2
- Pecos County2
- Reagan County2
- Schleicher County2
- Sterling County2
- Sutton County2
- Terrell County2
- Tom Green County2
- Upton County2
- Clay County1
- Cooke County1
- Delta County1
- Fannin County1
- Grayson County1
- Lamar County1
- Camp County1
- Cass County1
- Franklin County1
- Gregg County1
- Harrison County1
- Marion County1
- Morris County1
- Panola County1
- Rusk County1
- Shelby County1
- Titus County1
- Upshur County1
- Castro County1
- Dawson County1
- Deaf Smith County1
- Hockley County1
- Lamb County1
- Oldham County1
- Potter County1
- Randall County1
- Swisher County1
- Terry County1
- Brewster County1
- Crane County1
- Edwards County1
- Fisher County1
- Haskell County1
- Jones County1
- Nolan County1
- Runnels County1
- Taylor 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.