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Tornado Watches in Texas, 2018

22 tornado watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
22
Busiest month
December5 tornado watches
Busiest day
October 13, 20183 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 21, 3:05 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta and 22 more8 hr
Jan 21, 9:59 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Bowie, Cass, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison and 7 more6 hr
Feb 21, 9:48 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCNewton, Orange7 hr
Feb 24, 11:01 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Gregg and 12 more8 hr
Mar 28, 12:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend and 24 more9 hr
Apr 6, 3:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more8 hr
Apr 13, 1:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bosque, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta and 24 more9 hr
Apr 13, 1:50 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAngelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more8 hr
Apr 13, 9:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Bowie, Brazos, Burleson, Camp, Cass and 28 more8 hr
May 2, 12:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cottle and 14 more9 hr
May 29, 2:19 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHemphill, Lipscomb8 hr
Oct 13, 7:40 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Coleman, Concho, McCulloch, Menard, Runnels and 3 more4 hr
Oct 13, 9:54 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bell, Bosque, Burnet, Comanche, Coryell and 22 more9 hr
Oct 13, 3:06 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Houston, Madison and 7 more5 hr
Oct 31, 3:02 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Bowie, Brazoria and 57 more9 hr
Nov 5, 4:06 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCSabine, San Augustine, Shelby7 hr
Nov 30, 5:23 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta and 19 more8 hr
Nov 30, 6:40 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg and 9 more7 hr
Dec 26, 2:11 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coleman and 29 more10 hr
Dec 26, 5:48 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAtascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 17 more8 hr
Dec 26, 9:34 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Angelina, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee, Falls and 29 more6 hr
Dec 27, 3:43 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBrazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris and 10 more10 hr

By county

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

121 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. October 13, 20183tornado watches
  2. April 13, 20182tornado watches
  3. December 26, 20182tornado watches
  4. December 27, 20182tornado watches
  5. January 21, 20181tornado watches
  6. January 22, 20181tornado watches
  7. February 21, 20181tornado watches
  8. February 24, 20181tornado watches
  9. March 28, 20181tornado watches
  10. April 6, 20181tornado watches
  11. April 14, 20181tornado watches
  12. May 2, 20181tornado watches

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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.