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Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2021
9 tornado watches in May 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 May 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 17, 20212 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 3, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell and 27 more | 7 hr |
| May 17, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran and 39 more | 8 hr |
| May 17, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baylor, Childress, Cottle, Fisher, Foard, Hardeman and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, McCulloch and 4 more | 3 hr |
| May 18, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco and 30 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Austin, Bee, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 1:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Culberson, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Reeves | 7 hr |
| May 26, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Collingsworth and 20 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 10 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Deaf Smith County3
- Potter County3
- Randall County3
- Bailey County2
- Briscoe County2
- Castro County2
- Floyd County2
- Hale County2
- Hall County2
- Lamb County2
- Oldham County2
- Parmer County2
- Swisher County2
- Austin County2
- Colorado County2
- Grimes County2
- Montgomery County2
- San Jacinto County2
- Walker County2
- Waller County2
- Washington County2
- Armstrong County2
- Carson County2
- Donley County2
- Gray County2
- Hansford County2
- Hutchinson County2
- Moore County2
- Ochiltree County2
- Roberts County2
- Sherman County2
- Bell County1
- Bosque County1
- Collin County1
- Comanche County1
- Cooke County1
- Coryell County1
- Dallas County1
- Delta County1
- Denton County1
135 more counties
- Ellis County1
- Erath County1
- Fannin County1
- Grayson County1
- Hamilton County1
- Henderson County1
- Hill County1
- Hood County1
- Hopkins County1
- Hunt County1
- Johnson County1
- Kaufman County1
- Lamar County1
- Lampasas County1
- McLennan County1
- Mills County1
- Navarro County1
- Parker County1
- Rains County1
- Rockwall County1
- Somervell County1
- Tarrant County1
- Van Zandt County1
- Wise County1
- Andrews County1
- Borden County1
- Cochran County1
- Crane County1
- Crockett County1
- Crosby County1
- Dawson County1
- Dickens County1
- Ector County1
- Gaines County1
- Garza County1
- Glasscock County1
- Hockley County1
- Howard County1
- Irion County1
- Kent County1
- Lubbock County1
- Lynn County1
- Martin County1
- Midland County1
- Mitchell County1
- Motley County1
- Pecos County1
- Reagan County1
- Scurry County1
- Sterling County1
- Terrell County1
- Terry County1
- Upton County1
- Val Verde County1
- Winkler County1
- Yoakum County1
- Baylor County1
- Childress County1
- Cottle County1
- Fisher County1
- Foard County1
- Hardeman County1
- Haskell County1
- Jones County1
- King County1
- Knox County1
- Nolan County1
- Shackelford County1
- Stonewall County1
- Taylor County1
- Throckmorton County1
- Wilbarger County1
- Brown County1
- Callahan County1
- Coke County1
- Coleman County1
- Concho County1
- McCulloch County1
- Menard County1
- Runnels County1
- Schleicher County1
- Tom Green County1
- Anderson County1
- Atascosa County1
- Bastrop County1
- Bexar County1
- Blanco County1
- Brazos County1
- Burleson County1
- Caldwell County1
- Comal County1
- DeWitt County1
- Fayette County1
- Freestone County1
- Gonzales County1
- Guadalupe County1
- Hays County1
- Houston County1
- Karnes County1
- Kendall County1
- Lavaca County1
- Lee County1
- Leon County1
- Madison County1
- Milam County1
- Robertson County1
- Travis County1
- Trinity County1
- Williamson County1
- Wilson County1
- Bee County1
- Brazoria County1
- Chambers County1
- Fort Bend County1
- Galveston County1
- Goliad County1
- Harris County1
- Jackson County1
- Liberty County1
- Live Oak County1
- McMullen County1
- Matagorda County1
- Refugio County1
- Victoria County1
- Wharton County1
- Culberson County1
- Hudspeth County1
- Jeff Davis County1
- Reeves County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Hemphill County1
- Lipscomb County1
- Wheeler County1
- Dallam County1
- Hartley 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. Rebuilt daily.