Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Texas, April 2020
11 tornado watches in April 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 April 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- April 12, 20203 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Borden, Briscoe, Callahan, Childress and 37 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 11, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 12, 1:59 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 12, 5:52 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee, Freestone and 19 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:41 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson and 38 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 2:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin and 16 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 22, 10:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Fannin and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 5:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Cherokee, Grimes, Harrison, Houston, Jasper and 14 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 22, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Marion and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 24, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta and 24 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Nacogdoches County6
- Shelby County6
- Angelina County5
- Cherokee County5
- Panola County5
- Rusk County5
- Sabine County5
- San Augustine County5
- Trinity County5
- Walker County5
- Anderson County4
- Freestone County4
- Gregg County4
- Grimes County4
- Harrison County4
- Houston County4
- Madison County4
- Smith County4
- Jasper County4
- Montgomery County4
- Newton County4
- Polk County4
- San Jacinto County4
- Tyler County4
- Bastrop County3
- Caldwell County3
- Lee County3
- Travis County3
- Brazos County3
- Burleson County3
- Henderson County3
- Leon County3
- Limestone County3
- Crockett County2
- Irion County2
- Schleicher County2
- Tom Green County2
- Bandera County2
- Bexar County2
- Blanco County2
128 more counties
- Comal County2
- Edwards County2
- Fayette County2
- Gillespie County2
- Guadalupe County2
- Hays County2
- Kendall County2
- Kerr County2
- Kinney County2
- Medina County2
- Real County2
- Uvalde County2
- Falls County2
- Milam County2
- Williamson County2
- Navarro County2
- Robertson County2
- Austin County2
- Brazoria County2
- Chambers County2
- Fort Bend County2
- Galveston County2
- Hardin County2
- Harris County2
- Jefferson County2
- Liberty County2
- Orange County2
- Waller County2
- Washington County2
- Delta County2
- Hopkins County2
- Hunt County2
- Kaufman County2
- Lamar County2
- Rains County2
- Van Zandt County2
- Bowie County2
- Camp County2
- Cass County2
- Franklin County2
- Marion County2
- Morris County2
- Red River County2
- Titus County2
- Upshur County2
- Wood County2
- Archer County1
- Baylor County1
- Borden County1
- Briscoe County1
- Callahan County1
- Childress County1
- Clay County1
- Coke County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Cottle County1
- Crosby County1
- Dickens County1
- Donley County1
- Fisher County1
- Floyd County1
- Foard County1
- Garza County1
- Glasscock County1
- Hall County1
- Hardeman County1
- Haskell County1
- Howard County1
- Jones County1
- Kent County1
- King County1
- Knox County1
- Mitchell County1
- Motley County1
- Nolan County1
- Reagan County1
- Runnels County1
- Scurry County1
- Shackelford County1
- Sterling County1
- Stonewall County1
- Taylor County1
- Throckmorton County1
- Wichita County1
- Wilbarger County1
- Atascosa County1
- DeWitt County1
- Dimmit County1
- Frio County1
- Gonzales County1
- Karnes County1
- Lavaca County1
- Maverick County1
- Wilson County1
- Zavala County1
- Bell County1
- Bosque County1
- Burnet County1
- Concho County1
- Coryell County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hill County1
- Kimble County1
- Lampasas County1
- Llano County1
- McCulloch County1
- McLennan County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Mills County1
- San Saba County1
- Sutton County1
- Val Verde County1
- Colorado County1
- Jackson County1
- Matagorda County1
- Wharton County1
- Collin County1
- Cooke County1
- Dallas County1
- Denton County1
- Fannin County1
- Grayson County1
- Montague County1
- Parker County1
- Rockwall County1
- Tarrant County1
- Wise 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.