Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Texas, August 2020
2 tornado watches in August 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 August 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- August 26, 20201 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Nacogdoches and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 26, 9:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Sabine and 3 more | 11 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. Rebuilt daily.