Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2017
Tornado Watches in Texas, August 2017
7 tornado watches in August 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 August 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- August 26, 20172 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aransas, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston and 8 more | 12 hr |
| Aug 26, 1:48 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 17 more | 11 hr |
| Aug 26, 12:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 13 more | 13 hr |
| Aug 27, 1:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris and 5 more | 11 hr |
| Aug 27, 12:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris and 3 more | 13 hr |
| Aug 28, 1:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chambers, Hardin, Jefferson, Liberty, Orange | 10 hr |
| Aug 28, 12:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jefferson, Orange | 12 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chambers County6
- Jefferson County6
- Brazoria County5
- Fort Bend County5
- Galveston County5
- Harris County5
- Liberty County5
- Orange County5
- Matagorda County4
- Wharton County4
- Hardin County4
- Austin County3
- Montgomery County3
- Waller County3
- Jackson County2
- Colorado County2
- Grimes County2
- Washington County2
- Aransas County1
- Calhoun County1
- Goliad County1
- Refugio County1
- Victoria County1
- Brazos County1
- Burleson County1
- Fayette County1
- Lavaca County1
- Lee County1
- Jasper County1
- Newton County1
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.