Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2026
Tornado Watches in Texas, April 2026
10 tornado watches in April 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- April 28, 20263 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, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cottle and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 24, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Cooke, Delta and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 25, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta and 21 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 25, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Jack, Montague and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 10:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 28, 1:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Bosque, Callahan, Clay, Collin, Cooke and 30 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 28, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Falls, Freestone, Henderson, Houston, Leon and 5 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Archer County5
- Clay County5
- Cooke County5
- Jack County4
- Montague County4
- Wichita County4
- Young County4
- Collin County4
- Delta County4
- Fannin County4
- Franklin County4
- Grayson County4
- Hopkins County4
- Hunt County4
- Lamar County4
- Red River County4
- Rockwall County4
- Titus County4
- Baylor County3
- Throckmorton County3
- Bowie County3
- Camp County3
- Cass County3
- Morris County3
- Rains County3
- Wood County3
- Dallas County3
- Denton County3
- Johnson County3
- Parker County3
- Tarrant County3
- Wise County3
- Foard County2
- Hardeman County2
- Knox County2
- Wilbarger County2
- Hood County2
- Palo Pinto County2
- Somervell County2
- Ellis County2
40 more counties
- Henderson County2
- Kaufman County2
- Navarro County2
- Van Zandt County2
- Gregg County2
- Harrison County2
- Marion County2
- Upshur County2
- Childress County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Cottle County1
- Haskell County1
- King County1
- Stonewall County1
- Bosque County1
- Callahan County1
- Eastland County1
- Erath County1
- Hill County1
- Shackelford County1
- Stephens County1
- Angelina County1
- Cherokee County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Panola County1
- Rusk County1
- Sabine County1
- San Augustine County1
- Shelby County1
- Smith County1
- Anderson County1
- Falls County1
- Freestone County1
- Houston County1
- Leon County1
- Limestone County1
- McLennan County1
- Madison County1
- Robertson County1
- Trinity County1
Nearby
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.