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Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2022
6 tornado watches in May 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 May 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20223 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 1, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett and 27 more | 7 hr |
| May 4, 1:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Eastland, Grayson and 8 more | 8 hr |
| May 4, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth and 26 more | 8 hr |
| May 4, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 25 more | 8 hr |
| May 4, 9:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Haskell and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 10:13 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bowie and 54 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Borden County2
- Coke County2
- Crockett County2
- Fisher County2
- Glasscock County2
- Howard County2
- Irion County2
- Jones County2
- Mitchell County2
- Nolan County2
- Pecos County2
- Reagan County2
- Schleicher County2
- Scurry County2
- Sterling County2
- Sutton County2
- Taylor County2
- Terrell County2
- Tom Green County2
- Upton County2
- Val Verde County2
- Archer County2
- Clay County2
- Jack County2
- Montague County2
- Wichita County2
- Young County2
- Baylor County2
- Foard County2
- Hardeman County2
- Knox County2
- Wilbarger County2
- Haskell County2
- Throckmorton County2
- Andrews County1
- Brewster County1
- Crane County1
- Dawson County1
- Ector County1
- Gaines County1
109 more counties
- Loving County1
- Martin County1
- Midland County1
- Reeves County1
- Ward County1
- Winkler County1
- Cooke County1
- Denton County1
- Eastland County1
- Grayson County1
- Palo Pinto County1
- Parker County1
- Stephens County1
- Wise County1
- Armstrong County1
- Briscoe County1
- Carson County1
- Childress County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Cottle County1
- Crosby County1
- Dickens County1
- Donley County1
- Floyd County1
- Garza County1
- Gray County1
- Hale County1
- Hall County1
- Hemphill County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Kent County1
- King County1
- Lubbock County1
- Moore County1
- Motley County1
- Potter County1
- Randall County1
- Roberts County1
- Stonewall County1
- Swisher County1
- Wheeler County1
- Callahan County1
- Coleman County1
- Concho County1
- Edwards County1
- Kinney County1
- Maverick County1
- Runnels County1
- Shackelford County1
- Anderson County1
- Angelina County1
- Bastrop County1
- Bell County1
- Blanco County1
- Bowie County1
- Brazos County1
- Burleson County1
- Burnet County1
- Camp County1
- Cass County1
- Cherokee County1
- Coryell County1
- Ellis County1
- Falls County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Freestone County1
- Gillespie County1
- Gregg County1
- Grimes County1
- Harrison County1
- Hays County1
- Henderson County1
- Hill County1
- Hopkins County1
- Houston County1
- Kaufman County1
- Lampasas County1
- Lee County1
- Leon County1
- Limestone County1
- Llano County1
- McLennan County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Milam County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morris County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Navarro County1
- Panola County1
- Polk County1
- Rains County1
- Robertson County1
- Rusk County1
- Sabine County1
- San Augustine County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Shelby County1
- Smith County1
- Titus County1
- Travis County1
- Trinity County1
- Upshur County1
- Van Zandt County1
- Walker County1
- Washington County1
- Williamson County1
- Wood 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.