Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2020
2 tornado watches in May 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 May 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- May 12, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 10:48 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell, Comal, Fayette and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Harrison, Marion and 5 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bastrop County1
- Bexar County1
- Blanco County1
- Caldwell County1
- Comal County1
- Fayette County1
- Gonzales County1
- Guadalupe County1
- Hays County1
- Kendall County1
- Lee County1
- Travis County1
- Williamson County1
- Wilson County1
- Bowie County1
- Camp County1
- Cass County1
- Franklin County1
- Harrison County1
- Marion County1
- Morris County1
- Red River County1
- Titus County1
- Upshur County1
- Wood County1
Nearby
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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.