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Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2024

19 tornado watches in May 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 May 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
19
Busiest day
May 1, 20242 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 30, 10:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Wichita93 min
May 1, 3:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArmstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 25 more8 hr
May 3, 2:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBorden, Briscoe, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 30 more8 hr
May 4, 2:32 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrewster, Concho, Crane, Crockett, Irion, McCulloch and 11 more9 hr
May 6, 2:05 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCClay, Hardeman, Wichita, Wilbarger12 hr
May 8, 12:56 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Red River5 hr
May 8, 3:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bell, Bosque, Bowie, Burleson, Burnet and 46 more9 hr
May 9, 1:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 25 more7 hr
May 12, 12:32 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChambers, Hardin, Harris, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty and 7 more6 hr
May 16, 2:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAustin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 21 more9 hr
May 22, 12:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke and 45 more8 hr
May 22, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Burnet, Falls and 16 more3 hr
May 23, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaylor, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collingsworth and 20 more7 hr
May 23, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Falls, Freestone, Leon, Limestone, Milam and 1 more3 hr
May 25, 2:17 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche and 23 more7 hr
May 25, 3:26 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Delta and 10 more11 hr
May 26, 11:18 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCass, Marion4 hr
May 28, 1:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more7 hr
May 30, 3:29 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrews, Borden, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 20 more8 hr

By county

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

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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.