Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 2026
Tornado Watches in Texas, March 2026
9 tornado watches in March 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 March 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- March 10, 20262 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 5:43 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Donley and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 6, 2:44 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:19 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Cass, Harrison, Marion, Morris | 5 hr |
| Mar 10, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bandera, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 10, 5:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Comanche, Cooke, Denton and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 10, 10:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Red River | 7 hr |
| Mar 11, 11:25 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend and 23 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 15, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 15, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Orange, Sabine and 2 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Red River County3
- Archer County2
- Clay County2
- Cooke County2
- Denton County2
- Franklin County2
- Grayson County2
- Jack County2
- Montague County2
- Palo Pinto County2
- Parker County2
- Stephens County2
- Titus County2
- Wichita County2
- Wise County2
- Young County2
- Bowie County2
- Cass County2
- Harrison County2
- Marion County2
- Morris County2
- Angelina County2
- Hardin County2
- Jasper County2
- Nacogdoches County2
- Newton County2
- Orange County2
- Sabine County2
- San Augustine County2
- Shelby County2
- Tyler County2
- Armstrong County1
- Briscoe County1
- Childress County1
- Collingsworth County1
- Cottle County1
- Donley County1
- Floyd County1
- Foard County1
- Gray County1
84 more counties
- Hall County1
- Hardeman County1
- Hemphill County1
- Lipscomb County1
- Motley County1
- Wheeler County1
- Collin County1
- Dallas County1
- Delta County1
- Fannin County1
- Hopkins County1
- Hunt County1
- Lamar County1
- Rockwall County1
- Tarrant County1
- Bandera County1
- Brown County1
- Callahan County1
- Coke County1
- Coleman County1
- Concho County1
- Crockett County1
- Edwards County1
- Fisher County1
- Gillespie County1
- Haskell County1
- Irion County1
- Jones County1
- Kerr County1
- Kimble County1
- Kinney County1
- Llano County1
- McCulloch County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Nolan County1
- Real County1
- Runnels County1
- San Saba County1
- Schleicher County1
- Shackelford County1
- Sterling County1
- Sutton County1
- Taylor County1
- Throckmorton County1
- Tom Green County1
- Uvalde County1
- Val Verde County1
- Baylor County1
- Comanche County1
- Eastland County1
- Erath County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hood County1
- Mills County1
- Somervell County1
- Wilbarger County1
- Austin County1
- Brazoria County1
- Chambers County1
- Colorado County1
- Fort Bend County1
- Galveston County1
- Grimes County1
- Harris County1
- Houston County1
- Jefferson County1
- Liberty County1
- Montgomery County1
- Polk County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Trinity County1
- Walker County1
- Waller County1
- Washington County1
- Wharton County1
- Camp County1
- Cherokee County1
- Gregg County1
- Panola County1
- Rusk County1
- Smith County1
- Upshur County1
- Wood 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.