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Tornado Watches in Texas, 2020

28 tornado watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
28
Busiest month
April11 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 12, 20203 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 10, 1:20 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Cooke, Coryell and 33 more11 hr
Jan 10, 5:34 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 14 more11 hr
Jan 10, 9:09 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAustin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 17 more5 hr
Jan 11, 12:28 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCHardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Sabine and 1 more8 hr
Mar 13, 3:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrews, Crane, Crockett, Culberson, Ector, Hudspeth and 11 more9 hr
Mar 18, 4:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Borden, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 39 more7 hr
Mar 18, 11:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 34 more5 hr
Mar 19, 2:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Delta, Fannin and 18 more8 hr
Apr 11, 2:02 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Borden, Briscoe, Callahan, Childress and 37 more8 hr
Apr 11, 8:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 23 more5 hr
Apr 12, 1:59 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque and 37 more6 hr
Apr 12, 5:52 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Angelina, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee, Freestone and 19 more8 hr
Apr 19, 8:41 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson and 38 more6 hr
Apr 19, 2:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin and 16 more9 hr
Apr 22, 10:55 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson and 31 more6 hr
Apr 22, 2:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCollin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Fannin and 12 more6 hr
Apr 22, 5:01 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Cherokee, Grimes, Harrison, Houston, Jasper and 14 more9 hr
Apr 22, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Marion and 6 more4 hr
Apr 24, 4:49 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta and 24 more7 hr
May 12, 10:48 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell, Comal, Fayette and 8 more6 hr
May 16, 3:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Harrison, Marion and 5 more6 hr
Jul 25, 11:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrooks, Cameron, Duval, Hidalgo, Jim Wells, Kenedy and 6 more9 hr
Jul 26, 7:51 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrooks, Cameron, Duval, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells and 8 more14 hr
Aug 26, 2:41 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Nacogdoches and 8 more6 hr
Aug 26, 9:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Sabine and 3 more11 hr
Dec 23, 8:40 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCJasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange5 hr
Dec 31, 7:40 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBrazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris and 7 more7 hr
Dec 31, 1:27 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCNewton, Orange8 hr

By county

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

171 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 12, 20203tornado watches
  2. April 22, 20203tornado watches
  3. January 10, 20202tornado watches
  4. January 11, 20202tornado watches
  5. March 19, 20202tornado watches
  6. April 19, 20202tornado watches
  7. July 26, 20202tornado watches
  8. December 31, 20202tornado watches
  9. March 13, 20201tornado watches
  10. March 18, 20201tornado watches
  11. April 11, 20201tornado watches
  12. April 23, 20201tornado 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.