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Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2019

26 tornado watches in May 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
26
Busiest day
May 7, 20194 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 1:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArmstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 13 more9 hr
May 7, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Childress and 43 more8 hr
May 7, 4:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDallam5 hr
May 7, 5:38 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaylor, Foard, Hardeman, Knox, Wilbarger4 hr
May 7, 9:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more8 hr
May 8, 2:16 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Bowie, Brazos, Burleson, Cass, Cherokee and 21 more6 hr
May 18, 2:20 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Childress and 54 more8 hr
May 18, 9:10 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBosque, Brown, Coleman, Collin, Comanche, Concho and 36 more8 hr
May 18, 12:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg and 9 more7 hr
May 18, 1:16 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson and 19 more9 hr
May 18, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Nacogdoches and 6 more7 hr
May 18, 10:16 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHardin, Houston, Jasper, Madison, Newton, Polk and 4 more6 hr
May 20, 12:36 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCArmstrong, Borden, Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 34 more9 hr
May 20, 1:37 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more8 hr
May 20, 9:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBorden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 33 more6 hr
May 20, 10:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Knox, Wichita, Wilbarger9 hr
May 22, 2:34 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Wichita, Wilbarger7 hr
May 23, 3:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Cochran and 22 more7 hr
May 24, 1:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArmstrong, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth and 23 more7 hr
May 24, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more5 hr
May 25, 3:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaylor, Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby and 19 more7 hr
May 26, 2:32 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Sherman7 hr
May 26, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Cochran and 20 more8 hr
May 29, 12:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bosque, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin and 35 more9 hr
May 29, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Morris, Red River and 4 more7 hr
May 30, 2:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrewster, Crane, Crockett, Culberson, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis and 8 more7 hr

By county

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

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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.