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Tornado Watches in Texas, 2021

36 tornado watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
36
Busiest month
March9 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 13, 20213 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
Mar 12, 3:24 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran and 21 more5 hr
Mar 13, 12:36 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBailey, Castro, Cochran, Deaf Smith, Hale, Hockley and 8 more5 hr
Mar 13, 2:26 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCArmstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 19 more7 hr
Mar 13, 3:23 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBorden, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Dawson, Fisher and 18 more6 hr
Mar 17, 8:43 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby4 hr
Mar 17, 11:53 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCHardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler6 hr
Mar 24, 4:38 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Comanche, Coryell and 21 more5 hr
Mar 24, 9:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBandera, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet and 37 more6 hr
Mar 27, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg and 11 more10 hr
Apr 7, 12:38 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more7 hr
Apr 23, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Cherokee and 22 more7 hr
Apr 23, 3:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cottle and 7 more5 hr
Apr 28, 3:01 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Cooke, Eastland and 14 more7 hr
Apr 28, 1:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 16 more9 hr
Apr 28, 3:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Dimmit and 23 more8 hr
Apr 28, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBosque, Collin, Comanche, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 29 more6 hr
Apr 28, 10:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more7 hr
Apr 29, 2:01 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Gregg and 15 more6 hr
May 3, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell and 27 more7 hr
May 17, 3:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran and 39 more8 hr
May 17, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaylor, Childress, Cottle, Fisher, Foard, Hardeman and 10 more6 hr
May 17, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, McCulloch and 4 more3 hr
May 18, 2:29 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco and 30 more7 hr
May 18, 7:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAustin, Bee, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend and 17 more6 hr
May 22, 1:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCulberson, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Reeves7 hr
May 26, 5:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Collingsworth and 20 more7 hr
May 30, 4:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArmstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 10 more7 hr
Oct 10, 3:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more7 hr
Oct 10, 6:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman and 45 more8 hr
Oct 10, 11:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg and 12 more5 hr
Oct 12, 5:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Carson, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth and 17 more5 hr
Oct 12, 11:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChildress, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hall, Hemphill and 4 more7 hr
Oct 27, 7:55 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin and 16 more9 hr
Oct 27, 10:08 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCHarrison, Marion, Panola, Shelby5 hr
Dec 10, 6:34 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Marion, Morris and 4 more4 hr
Dec 10, 10:44 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCass, Harrison, Marion6 hr

By county

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

192 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 13, 20213tornado watches
  2. April 28, 20213tornado watches
  3. April 29, 20213tornado watches
  4. March 17, 20212tornado watches
  5. April 23, 20212tornado watches
  6. May 17, 20212tornado watches
  7. May 18, 20212tornado watches
  8. October 10, 20212tornado watches
  9. October 27, 20212tornado watches
  10. December 11, 20212tornado watches
  11. March 12, 20211tornado watches
  12. March 24, 20211tornado 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.