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Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2017
9 tornado watches in May 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 May 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 18, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 7:32 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty and 10 more | 9 hr |
| May 9, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Culberson, Deaf Smith and 11 more | 8 hr |
| May 10, 2:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Dickens and 13 more | 7 hr |
| May 16, 1:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth and 20 more | 8 hr |
| May 18, 1:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cottle and 12 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin and 40 more | 10 hr |
| May 19, 12:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 19 more | 7 hr |
| May 19, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Clay, Collin, Comanche and 28 more | 11 hr |
| May 19, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Fisher and 15 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baylor County4
- Haskell County4
- Throckmorton County4
- Archer County3
- Childress County3
- Cottle County3
- Dickens County3
- Foard County3
- Hall County3
- Hardeman County3
- King County3
- Knox County3
- Motley County3
- Wichita County3
- Wilbarger County3
- Brown County3
- Callahan County3
- Coke County3
- Coleman County3
- Comanche County3
- Concho County3
- Eastland County3
- Erath County3
- Fisher County3
- Irion County3
- Jones County3
- McCulloch County3
- Mills County3
- Nolan County3
- Palo Pinto County3
- Runnels County3
- San Saba County3
- Shackelford County3
- Stephens County3
- Sterling County3
- Taylor County3
- Tom Green County3
- Young County3
- Briscoe County2
- Floyd County2
78 more counties
- Stonewall County2
- Collingsworth County2
- Hemphill County2
- Lipscomb County2
- Wheeler County2
- Clay County2
- Bosque County2
- Collin County2
- Cooke County2
- Dallas County2
- Denton County2
- Ellis County2
- Grayson County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hill County2
- Hood County2
- Jack County2
- Johnson County2
- Montague County2
- Parker County2
- Somervell County2
- Tarrant County2
- Wise County2
- Angelina County1
- Chambers County1
- Hardin County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Liberty County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Newton County1
- Orange County1
- Polk County1
- Sabine County1
- San Augustine County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Shelby County1
- Trinity County1
- Tyler County1
- Andrews County1
- Bailey County1
- Castro County1
- Cochran County1
- Culberson County1
- Deaf Smith County1
- Gaines County1
- Hockley County1
- Lamb County1
- Loving County1
- Oldham County1
- Parmer County1
- Reeves County1
- Terry County1
- Ward County1
- Winkler County1
- Yoakum County1
- Swisher County1
- Armstrong County1
- Carson County1
- Crosby County1
- Donley County1
- Gray County1
- Hansford County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Ochiltree County1
- Roberts County1
- Coryell County1
- Lampasas County1
- McLennan County1
- Delta County1
- Fannin County1
- Hunt County1
- Kaufman County1
- Lamar County1
- Rockwall County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Schleicher 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.