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Tornado Watches in Texas, 2017

38 tornado watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
38
Busiest month
May9 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 2, 20174 tornado watches

Over time

By month

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
Jan 2, 6:12 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 21 more10 hr
Jan 15, 6:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet, Comal and 31 more6 hr
Jan 20, 7:32 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCJefferson, Orange6 hr
Jan 21, 3:41 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Bowie, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 7 more7 hr
Feb 14, 5:09 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAransas, Austin, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers and 24 more6 hr
Feb 14, 9:38 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Nacogdoches, Newton and 5 more5 hr
Mar 24, 7:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee, Colorado and 20 more5 hr
Mar 24, 9:23 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Sabine and 2 more6 hr
Mar 24, 10:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHardin, Jasper, Newton, Orange, Tyler6 hr
Mar 26, 4:02 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 10 more7 hr
Mar 28, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Childress, Clay and 33 more7 hr
Mar 29, 2:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Chambers, Galveston, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson and 6 more7 hr
Mar 29, 4:17 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Cass, Morris8 hr
Apr 1, 10:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBandera, Edwards, Gillespie, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney and 6 more8 hr
Apr 2, 6:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar and 51 more7 hr
Apr 2, 10:39 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Austin, Cherokee, Colorado, Gregg, Hardin and 20 more5 hr
Apr 2, 1:34 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAngelina, Hardin, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Orange and 4 more7 hr
Apr 21, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBosque, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Comanche and 40 more8 hr
Apr 26, 10:08 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 7 more7 hr
Apr 26, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Hardin, Jasper, Liberty, Nacogdoches, Newton and 7 more5 hr
Apr 29, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Camp, Cherokee, Delta, Fannin, Franklin and 18 more5 hr
May 3, 7:32 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty and 10 more9 hr
May 9, 3:23 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrews, Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Culberson, Deaf Smith and 11 more8 hr
May 10, 2:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Dickens and 13 more7 hr
May 16, 1:54 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCArmstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth and 20 more8 hr
May 18, 1:18 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCArcher, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cottle and 12 more7 hr
May 18, 1:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin and 40 more10 hr
May 19, 12:26 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 19 more7 hr
May 19, 3:26 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Bosque, Clay, Collin, Comanche and 28 more11 hr
May 19, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Fisher and 15 more7 hr
Aug 25, 2:02 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAransas, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston and 8 more12 hr
Aug 26, 1:48 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAustin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 17 more11 hr
Aug 26, 12:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAustin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 13 more13 hr
Aug 27, 1:50 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAustin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris and 5 more11 hr
Aug 27, 12:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris and 3 more13 hr
Aug 28, 1:51 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCChambers, Hardin, Jefferson, Liberty, Orange10 hr
Aug 28, 12:16 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJefferson, Orange12 hr
Oct 21, 3:06 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more7 hr

By county

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

166 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 2, 20174tornado watches
  2. March 25, 20173tornado watches
  3. January 21, 20172tornado watches
  4. February 14, 20172tornado watches
  5. March 29, 20172tornado watches
  6. April 26, 20172tornado watches
  7. May 18, 20172tornado watches
  8. May 19, 20172tornado watches
  9. August 26, 20172tornado watches
  10. August 27, 20172tornado watches
  11. August 28, 20172tornado watches
  12. January 2, 20171tornado watches

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. Rebuilt daily.