Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2023
Tornado Watches in Texas, January 2023
5 tornado watches in January 2023. 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 January 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- January 3, 20232 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 1:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 2, 8:59 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Panola, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby | 6 hr |
| Jan 3, 2:56 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Panola, Shelby | 8 hr |
| Jan 18, 9:02 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Cherokee, Harrison, Houston, Jasper, Marion and 12 more | 9 hr |
| Jan 24, 10:49 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aransas, Austin, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers and 18 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Panola County4
- Shelby County4
- Sabine County3
- San Augustine County3
- Angelina County2
- Cherokee County2
- Harrison County2
- Marion County2
- Nacogdoches County2
- Rusk County2
- Jasper County2
- Newton County2
- Bowie County1
- Camp County1
- Cass County1
- Franklin County1
- Gregg County1
- Morris County1
- Red River County1
- Smith County1
- Titus County1
- Upshur County1
- Wood County1
- Houston County1
- Polk County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Trinity County1
- Tyler County1
- Walker County1
- Aransas County1
- Austin County1
- Bee County1
- Brazoria County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chambers County1
- Colorado County1
- Fort Bend County1
- Galveston County1
- Goliad County1
- Hardin 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.