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Tornado Watches in Texas, April 2024
17 tornado watches in April 2024. 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 April 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 17
- Busiest day
- April 28, 20244 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Grayson and 6 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 8, 1:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee, Falls and 23 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 8, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Cherokee, Freestone, Gregg, Harrison, Henderson and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 9, 9:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson and 21 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 9, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Nacogdoches, Panola and 5 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 10, 3:47 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 2:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Borden, Callahan, Childress, Clay and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 8 hr |
| Apr 25, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Ochiltree, Sherman | 4 hr |
| Apr 26, 10:12 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Bowie, Camp, Cass and 42 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 26, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 6:27 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Foard, Hall, Hardeman and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Eastland, Fisher and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 28, 1:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Coryell, Dallas, Delta and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson and 38 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 28, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Anderson County6
- Wilbarger County5
- Cherokee County5
- Freestone County5
- Leon County5
- Limestone County5
- Panola County5
- Robertson County5
- Rusk County5
- Gregg County5
- Harrison County5
- Henderson County5
- Smith County5
- Archer County4
- Baylor County4
- Clay County4
- Wichita County4
- Falls County4
- Milam County4
- Nacogdoches County4
- Shelby County4
- Navarro County4
- Foard County4
- Young County3
- Angelina County3
- Brazos County3
- Burleson County3
- Houston County3
- Jasper County3
- Madison County3
- Newton County3
- Sabine County3
- San Augustine County3
- Tyler County3
- Marion County3
- Upshur County3
- Coryell County3
- Lampasas County3
- McLennan County3
- Hardeman County3
106 more counties
- Knox County3
- Hopkins County3
- Cooke County2
- Denton County2
- Grayson County2
- Jack County2
- Montague County2
- Wise County2
- Grimes County2
- Montgomery County2
- Polk County2
- San Jacinto County2
- Trinity County2
- Walker County2
- Washington County2
- Bastrop County2
- Bell County2
- Caldwell County2
- Guadalupe County2
- Lee County2
- Childress County2
- Cottle County2
- Fisher County2
- Haskell County2
- Jones County2
- Kent County2
- King County2
- Nolan County2
- Shackelford County2
- Stephens County2
- Stonewall County2
- Taylor County2
- Throckmorton County2
- Ochiltree County2
- Bosque County2
- Bowie County2
- Camp County2
- Cass County2
- Collin County2
- Dallas County2
- Delta County2
- Ellis County2
- Fannin County2
- Franklin County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hill County2
- Hunt County2
- Johnson County2
- Kaufman County2
- Lamar County2
- Mills County2
- Morris County2
- Rains County2
- Red River County2
- Rockwall County2
- Somervell County2
- Tarrant County2
- Titus County2
- Van Zandt County2
- Wood County2
- Blanco County1
- Burnet County1
- Comal County1
- Hays County1
- Travis County1
- Williamson County1
- Hardin County1
- Jefferson County1
- Orange County1
- Borden County1
- Callahan County1
- Coke County1
- Dickens County1
- Glasscock County1
- Howard County1
- Irion County1
- Mitchell County1
- Reagan County1
- Runnels County1
- Scurry County1
- Sterling County1
- Tom Green County1
- Lipscomb County1
- Hansford County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Moore County1
- Sherman County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Hall County1
- Motley County1
- Wheeler County1
- Eastland County1
- Palo Pinto County1
- Comanche County1
- Erath County1
- Hood County1
- Parker County1
- Austin County1
- Colorado County1
- DeWitt County1
- Fayette County1
- Gonzales County1
- Karnes County1
- Lavaca County1
- Waller County1
- Wilson 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.