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Tornado Watches in Texas, May 2025
13 tornado watches in May 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- May 6, 20253 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 5, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Crane, Ector, Gaines, Loving, Martin and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bandera, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Edwards and 23 more | 9 hr |
| May 6, 8:13 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson and 37 more | 12 hr |
| May 6, 1:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Hardin, Harrison, Jasper and 11 more | 8 hr |
| May 17, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 8 hr |
| May 18, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coleman and 32 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 12:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay | 9 hr |
| May 19, 2:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Collin, Cooke, Denton, Fannin, Grayson, Jack and 7 more | 7 hr |
| May 19, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Red River | 7 hr |
| May 25, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baylor, Briscoe, Callahan, Childress, Cottle, Crosby and 23 more | 9 hr |
| May 26, 2:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 36 more | 10 hr |
| May 28, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Upton County3
- Baylor County3
- Clay County3
- Foard County3
- Hardeman County3
- Knox County3
- Wilbarger County3
- Andrews County2
- Crane County2
- Ector County2
- Gaines County2
- Loving County2
- Martin County2
- Midland County2
- Pecos County2
- Reeves County2
- Terrell County2
- Ward County2
- Winkler County2
- Bandera County2
- Crockett County2
- Edwards County2
- Glasscock County2
- Irion County2
- Kerr County2
- Kimble County2
- Reagan County2
- Real County2
- Schleicher County2
- Sterling County2
- Sutton County2
- Tom Green County2
- Uvalde County2
- Bastrop County2
- Blanco County2
- Burnet County2
- Caldwell County2
- Comal County2
- Gillespie County2
- Guadalupe County2
128 more counties
- Hays County2
- Kendall County2
- Lee County2
- Llano County2
- Travis County2
- Williamson County2
- Archer County2
- Wichita County2
- Hemphill County2
- Lipscomb County2
- Callahan County2
- Coleman County2
- Collin County2
- Cooke County2
- Denton County2
- Grayson County2
- Haskell County2
- Jack County2
- Jones County2
- Montague County2
- Palo Pinto County2
- Parker County2
- Runnels County2
- Shackelford County2
- Stephens County2
- Taylor County2
- Throckmorton County2
- Wise County2
- Young County2
- Yoakum County1
- Kinney County1
- Val Verde County1
- Austin County1
- Bell County1
- Brazos County1
- Burleson County1
- Colorado County1
- Coryell County1
- DeWitt County1
- Falls County1
- Fayette County1
- Fort Bend County1
- Gonzales County1
- Grimes County1
- Harris County1
- Houston County1
- Lampasas County1
- Lavaca County1
- Leon County1
- Liberty County1
- McLennan County1
- Madison County1
- Milam County1
- Montgomery County1
- Polk County1
- Robertson County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Trinity County1
- Walker County1
- Waller County1
- Washington County1
- Wharton County1
- Angelina County1
- Cherokee County1
- Gregg County1
- Hardin County1
- Harrison County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Newton County1
- Orange County1
- Panola County1
- Rusk County1
- Sabine County1
- San Augustine County1
- Shelby County1
- Smith County1
- Tyler County1
- Brown County1
- Comanche County1
- Dallas County1
- Eastland County1
- Ellis County1
- Erath County1
- Hood County1
- Johnson County1
- Rockwall County1
- Somervell County1
- Tarrant County1
- Fannin County1
- Lamar County1
- Bowie County1
- Red River County1
- Briscoe County1
- Childress County1
- Cottle County1
- Crosby County1
- Dickens County1
- Fisher County1
- Floyd County1
- Garza County1
- Hale County1
- Hall County1
- Kent County1
- King County1
- Lubbock County1
- Lynn County1
- Motley County1
- Nolan County1
- Stonewall County1
- Swisher County1
- Atascosa County1
- Bexar County1
- Coke County1
- Concho County1
- Frio County1
- McCulloch County1
- Mason County1
- Medina County1
- Menard County1
- San Saba County1
- Wilson County1
- Zavala County1
- Hansford County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Ochiltree County1
- Roberts 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.