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Tornado Watches in Texas, 2022

34 tornado watches in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
34
Busiest month
March8 tornado watches
Busiest day
December 13, 20225 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
Jan 8, 4:45 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Chambers, Grimes, Hardin, Harris, Jasper and 15 more7 hr
Feb 21, 8:49 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCRed River7 hr
Mar 21, 3:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco and 61 more10 hr
Mar 21, 8:09 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 21 more6 hr
Mar 22, 12:59 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAustin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 20 more8 hr
Mar 22, 1:58 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Sabine and 2 more5 hr
Mar 22, 7:08 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCHardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler8 hr
Mar 29, 11:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBosque, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 22 more8 hr
Mar 30, 5:30 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 12 more8 hr
Mar 30, 11:26 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCHardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler8 hr
Apr 4, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCollin, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis, Fannin and 12 more7 hr
Apr 4, 10:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg and 12 more5 hr
Apr 11, 3:31 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Red River7 hr
Apr 12, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet, Collin and 26 more7 hr
Apr 12, 7:29 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 18 more7 hr
Apr 13, 10:37 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more6 hr
Apr 13, 2:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCSabine, San Augustine, Shelby8 hr
Apr 13, 5:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCNewton5 hr
May 1, 2:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrews, Borden, Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett and 27 more7 hr
May 4, 1:26 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Eastland, Grayson and 8 more8 hr
May 4, 1:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArmstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth and 26 more8 hr
May 4, 2:26 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBorden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 25 more8 hr
May 4, 9:41 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Haskell and 7 more6 hr
May 5, 10:13 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Angelina, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bowie and 54 more8 hr
Oct 24, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bastrop, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Burnet and 20 more5 hr
Nov 4, 1:02 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bell, Bosque, Camp, Cherokee, Collin and 40 more7 hr
Nov 4, 5:36 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Bowie, Brazos, Burleson, Camp, Cass and 26 more6 hr
Nov 4, 10:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJasper, Newton, Tyler5 hr
Dec 12, 8:25 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCArmstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hansford and 6 more4 hr
Dec 12, 9:54 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more6 hr
Dec 13, 3:58 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Brown, Clay, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 21 more7 hr
Dec 13, 9:07 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bosque, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee and 31 more8 hr
Dec 13, 2:15 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAngelina, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk, Sabine and 4 more8 hr
Dec 13, 9:33 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCJasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange8 hr

By county

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

156 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. December 13, 20225tornado watches
  2. March 22, 20224tornado watches
  3. April 13, 20224tornado watches
  4. March 30, 20223tornado watches
  5. May 4, 20223tornado watches
  6. April 5, 20222tornado watches
  7. May 5, 20222tornado watches
  8. November 4, 20222tornado watches
  9. January 8, 20221tornado watches
  10. February 22, 20221tornado watches
  11. March 21, 20221tornado watches
  12. April 11, 20221tornado 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.