Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2023
Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2023
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20231 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 4, 2:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Cooke, Cottle and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 11, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Clay, Cooke, Grayson, Jack, Montague and 2 more | 10 hr |
| May 26, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Ector, Gaines and 7 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Archer County2
- Clay County2
- Cooke County2
- Grayson County2
- Montague County2
- Wichita County2
- Baylor County1
- Childress County1
- Cottle County1
- Fannin County1
- Foard County1
- Hardeman County1
- King County1
- Knox County1
- Wilbarger County1
- Jack County1
- Wise County1
- Andrews County1
- Brewster County1
- Crane County1
- Culberson County1
- Ector County1
- Gaines County1
- Jeff Davis County1
- Loving County1
- Pecos County1
- Presidio County1
- Reeves County1
- Ward County1
- Winkler 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.