Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2018
Tornado Watches in Texas, December 2018
5 tornado watches in December 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 December 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- December 26, 20182 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 6:40 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 26, 2:11 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coleman and 29 more | 10 hr |
| Dec 26, 5:48 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 17 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 26, 9:34 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee, Falls and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 3:43 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris and 10 more | 10 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County2
- Gregg County2
- Harrison County2
- Marion County2
- Rusk County2
- Smith County2
- Upshur County2
- Wood County2
- Bowie County1
- Camp County1
- Cass County1
- Franklin County1
- Morris County1
- Red River County1
- Titus County1
- Bell County1
- Bosque County1
- Brown County1
- Burnet County1
- Callahan County1
- Coleman County1
- Comanche County1
- Concho County1
- Coryell County1
- Eastland County1
- Erath County1
- Hamilton County1
- Haskell County1
- Hood County1
- Jack County1
- Jones County1
- Kimble County1
- Lampasas County1
- Llano County1
- McCulloch County1
- McLennan County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Mills County1
- Palo Pinto County1
76 more counties
- Parker County1
- Runnels County1
- San Saba County1
- Shackelford County1
- Somervell County1
- Stephens County1
- Taylor County1
- Throckmorton County1
- Williamson County1
- Young County1
- Atascosa County1
- Bandera County1
- Bastrop County1
- Bexar County1
- Blanco County1
- Caldwell County1
- Comal County1
- Edwards County1
- Frio County1
- Gillespie County1
- Gonzales County1
- Guadalupe County1
- Hays County1
- Kendall County1
- Kerr County1
- Kinney County1
- Lee County1
- Medina County1
- Real County1
- Travis County1
- Uvalde County1
- Wilson County1
- Zavala County1
- Anderson County1
- Angelina County1
- Brazos County1
- Burleson County1
- Falls County1
- Freestone County1
- Grimes County1
- Henderson County1
- Houston County1
- Kaufman County1
- Leon County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Milam County1
- Montgomery County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Navarro County1
- Panola County1
- Polk County1
- Rains County1
- Robertson County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Shelby County1
- Trinity County1
- Van Zandt County1
- Walker County1
- Washington County1
- Brazoria County1
- Chambers County1
- Fort Bend County1
- Galveston County1
- Hardin County1
- Harris County1
- Jackson County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Liberty County1
- Matagorda County1
- Newton County1
- Orange County1
- Sabine County1
- Tyler County1
- Wharton County1
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20172019
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.